Доклады Международного конгресса ИИСАА. Т. 1

II. Middle East, Caucasus and Central Asia / Ближний Восток, Кавказ и Центральная Азия Доклады Международного конгресса по источниковедению и историографии стран Азии и Африки. Т. 1. 2020 89 1,047 manuscripts and artefacts, which he handed over to the Asiatic Museum and the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography. 1 Zaleman died in November 1916, and Professor S. F. Oldenburg, the new director of the Asiatic Museum, appointed Ivanow as Assistant Keeper at the Museum, after which he also received the docu- ments exempting him from military service. Oldenburg suggested to Ivanow that he should carry out further fieldwork in Bukhara where the climate was more favourable and food more readily available. Ivanow took this suggestion to escape from St Petersburg’s severe winter and food shortages. However, upon his arrival in Bukhara in spring 1918, Ivanow found himself in a very troubled and hostile environment in which the locals and Russians were at daggers drawn. 2 However, after few months stay in Bukhara Ivanow moved to Mashhad on 3 June 2018, 3 only to encounter new hardships there, particularly with finding a job and securing a livelihood for himself. In Persia, he worked for the 1 Ivanow W. Autobiography. P. 58–60. 2 Under Imperial Russia, the CentralAsianMuslims, known as inorodtsy (sing. inorodets ), literally meaning people of ‘foreign’or ‘alien’descent, enjoyed certain privileges, most notably exemption from military conscription (Slocum J.W. Who, and When, Were the Inorodtsy? The Evolution of the Category of “Aliens" in Imperial Russia // The Russian Review . 1998. Vol. 57, No. 2. P. 173–190. P. 173). However, a 1916 imperial decree, calling upon a large number of Central Asian men to engage in labour behind the battle lines, digging trenches, caused some unrest in Central Asia and led to violent clashes between the locals and Russians, particularly in Kyrgyzstan (Soucek S. A History of Inner Asia. Cambridge, 2000. P. 209). 3 Ivanow W. Autobiography. P. 62–65. The Ark of Bukhara, 1913