Kyrgyzstan's entry into Russia at the beginning of the second half of the 19th century played a major role in its subsequent development. Since that time, a new stage in the history of the Kirghiz people began, their fate was now inextricably linked with the fate of the great Russian people. Joining Russia helped to put an end to internecine feudal wars and sheep (cattle rustling from each other) in Kyrgyzstan, the years of which were popularly called " times of anxiety and hostility." As a result of the new peace and Russia's economic influence, there have been significant changes in the Kyrgyz economy. The tsarist government resettled Russian peasants in Central Asia and Kazakhstan. At the same time, it hoped, on the one hand, to mitigate the contradictions between the working peasantry and the landlords in the central regions of Russia, and, on the other, to turn the rich part of the immigrants on the national outskirts into the support of its power. However, the resettlement policy did not meet the Government's expectations. The vast majority of Russian peasants who moved to Kirghizia consisted of poor people who came to the final ruin on the way to Central Asia, and there became the object of oppression of representatives of the colonial authorities, Russian kulaks and Cossack atamans who seized the best, fertile lands. The contact of the Kyrgyz working people with the poorest strata of the Russian peasantry contributed to their rapprochement, as evidenced by the cases of their joint actions against tsarism and the Baev - Manaps. As a result of the colonization movement of Russian peasants, their settlements appeared in the north of Kyrgyzstan: in the Chui Valley and Issyk-Kul basin-at the end of 1860-1870, in the Talas Valley-in 1880-1890, in the south of Kyrgyzstan-in 1890-1900. At the beginning of the XX century. there were already about 120 such settlements. By this time, the first cities appeared - Karakol (now Przhevalsk), Tokmak, Pishpek (now Frunze), wh ... Читать далее