SOME ISSUES OFTHE CONFRONTATION BETWEEN YESSIM KHAN AND TURSUN KHAN(BASED ON THE MATERIALS OF SHEZHIRE AND ORAL HISTORY)

The increasing importance of oral history and folk sources (especially shezhire in Kazakhstanhistoriography)is one of the important trends in the development of historical science. In recent years, shezhire data has become one of the active sources capable of providing interesting facts on the medieval history of Kazakhstan. Using them opens up new horizons in the history of the Kazakh Khanate. The object of the study is the political and military confrontation between Yessim Khan and Tursun Khan in 1626-1627/28. The main directions of Tursun Khan's domestic policy and military actions in the war against Yessim Khan in the process of its beginning and development as an integral part of the domestic military tragedy were chosen as the subject of the study. This also determines the chronological framework of the study, which focuses on the most intense events in the first quarter of the XVII century. Kazakh shezhire, as well as oral history, has deeply and acutely preserved the consequences of the internecine war. Especially the horrors of war were experienced by the Dulats, Katagans and other tribes who suffered great human lossesand material costs. The materials of shezhire and the oral history of the Dulat (Shuyldak genus) tribe have preserved in people's memory some intrigues, secret conspiracies and insidious deeds of Tursun Khan. As a result, apparently they became some of the reasons for the ruptureof the relationship between the two rulers. The issues analyzed in the article are poorly studied and have not received comprehensive development in the domestic scientific literature until now.