2025. no 3. Ismail Kerimov

About two interesting passages published in “Fuyuzat” (“Blessing”) magazine

Ismail Kerimov

Fevzi Yakubov Crimean Engineering and Pedagogical University;
Marjani Institute of History of the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences

Abstract. This article considers two passages of the prominent Crimean Tatar publicist and a writer A.S. Aivazov (1878–1938), dedicated to the conditions for the survival of national identity. Published in 1906 in the Baku magazine “Fuyuzat” (“Blessing”), they have not been known to modern researchers of the author’s work until now. The article particularly emphasizes that of the Crimean authors, contemporaries of I. Gasprinsky, the first to speak out with sharp criticism of some publications in the newspaper “Terdzhiman” was A.S. Aivazov. Despite of the fact that the criticism was quite sharp, the relationships between Ismail Gasprinsky and A.S. Aivazov did not deteriorate, and even Gasprinsky before his death in 1914 bequeathed to A.S. Aivazov the position of editor-in-chief of the newspaper. And so it happened. A.S. Aivazov remained in the position of editor-in-chief of “Terdzhiman” until July, 1917.

Keywords: Crimean Tatar publicity, Asan Sabri Aivazov, “Fuyuzat” magazine, beginning of the 20th century

For citation: Kerimov I.A. About two interesting passages published in “Fuyuzat” (“Blessing”) magazine. Krymskoe istoricheskoe obozrenie=Crimean Historical Review. 2025, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 79–85. DOI: 10.22378/kio.2025.3.79-85 (In Crimean Tatar)

REFERENCES

1. Aivazov A.S. Mankind and aspiration. Fuyuzat=Blessing. 1906, no. 5, December 18. (In Crimean Tatar)

2. Aivazov A.S. Why Crimeans are not criticized? Fuyuzat=Blessing. 1906, no. 6, December 29. (In Crimean Tatar)

About the author: Ismail A. Kerimov – Dr. Sci. (Philology), Professor, Director of the Research Institute of the Crimean Tatar Philology, History and Culture of the Crimea Ethnoses, Fevzi Yakubov Crimean Engineering and Pedagogical University (8, Uchednyy lane, Simferopol 295015, Russian Federation); Leading Researcher of the Crimean Scientific Center, Marjani Institute of History of the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences (7, Baturin Str., Kazan 420111, Russian Federation); ORCID: 0009-0003-5768-4423; alimes@mail.ru

Received 30.03.2025

Accepted 05.08.2025