KENESARY KASSYMOV İN PRE-REVOLUTİONARY HİSTORİOGRAPHY

This article considers the directions and features of the study of the national liberation uprising against the colonialism of tsarism, led by Kenesary Kassymov in 1837-1847 in the work of pre-revolutionary authors Kenesary Khan is a personality, his name occupies a special place in the history of not only Kazakhstan, but also Central Asia.He became famous for being a sultan («аксүйек»aristocracy -auth.) belonged to the tyure («төре » representatives of the Genghis Khan family - auth.)was the last khan of the Kazakhs, also a batyr (knight, hero - auth.) and leader of the national liberation uprising.M.I. Venyukov cited the name of Kenesary only as an example to clarify the methods of warfare. L.Meyer provided relatively complete data on the activities of Kenesary Kassymov. N.I. Krasovsky acknowledged that for the Kazakhs, the unity and independence of the people were the main values.According to V. Potto, every year the colonization of the Zhetisu (Semirechye - auth.) is intensified by foreigners from the interior of Russia, mainly in the south of the region. Although M. Terentyev showed Kenesary's high level of power, he likened his warriors to pirates. Zavalishin described the movement ofKenesary Kassymov as an uprising, not just a riot or robbery. It is known that Ch.Ch. Valikhanov called Kenesary the most courageous rebel.А. Kenesarin's note tells about the life and work of the Kenesary, the details of his death. N.A. Sereda recognized Kenesary as a political opponent of the Russian Empire and its long struggle as a war of the Kazakh people for the restoration of independence. In А. Yanushkevich's works, there are conflicting opinions about Kenesary. A. Dobrosmyslov estimated that Kenesary was the last false khan of the Middle Horde.