IMPERIAL LANGUAGE POLICY IN THE TURKESTAN REGION AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE FORMATION OF RUSSIAN-LANGUAGE LITERACY AMONG THE LOCAL POPULATION

The article reconstructs the content and mechanisms of the imperial language policy in the Turkestan Region at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century and identifies its influence on the formation of Russian-language literacy among the local population. The study is based on materials of the Turkestan Department of the Russian Geographical Society, documents of Russian-native schools, pedagogical congresses, as well as the administrative and educational practices of K. P. Kaufman, N. I. Ilminsky, and N. P. Ostroumov.