Abstract:

Vladimir Petrovich Nalivkin and Maria Nalivkina lived in Turkistan between 1876 and 1918. V. P. Nalivkin left his military life in 1876 and was appointed vice president in Fergana's Namangan district. V. P. Nalivkin, who left his office here in 1878, with his wife and family first settled in the village of Kıpçak, Radvan, and then in the village of Nanay. The Nalivkins, who lived in the village of Nanay for six or eight years, learned the language, lifestyle, and history of the region. Despite the fact that the Nalivkins did not get the charity training, they had written a variety of works by developing themselves in different fields during the period they lived in the Fergana region. The work of the Nalivkin in 1886 in Kazan, "Oçerk Bıta Jenshinı Osdlago Tuzemnago Naseleniya Ferganı" is one of them. And with this work, they have achieved many successes. M. Nalivkina has acquired the experience and knowledge that a stranger cannot acquire within the indigenous people over the years of his life in the region. She has made a great contribution to this work she has written with her husband about this cultural information she has acquired about indigenous women. It has been given information about the food culture of the region. The work of the Nalivkin was awarded a gold medal by the Russian Empire Geographic Association. This work of the Nalivkin has again received appreciation and praise from many Orientalists. The Academy member Nikolay Ivanovich Veselovsky, who wrote the first criticism of the work, M. Nalivkina was the first Russian female ethnograph.

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