What do the archival materials concerning the newspaper “Tarjeman” show?

Abstract

The article shows the efforts of Ismail Gasprinsky to open a newspaper in the Tatar language in the late 1870s – early 1880s. On the basis of archival materials, official appeals of I. Gasprinsky to various state institutions, it is shown how much time and effort this process took. It is also said that I. Gasprinsky himself began publishing his first articles on the pages of the periodical press back in 1875. It is emphasized that the newspaper «Tarjeman», which had a tremendous impact on the lives not only of the Crimean Tatars, but also of all Muslim peoples of the Russian Empire, was under the vigilant supervision of the official bodies of tsarist Russia from the very first days of its existence.