2025. no 3. Il’ya Zaytsev

New version of the Crimean Tatar resettlement song “Türki Kırım”

Il’ya Zaytsev

Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Abstract. The article publishes a new version of the Crimean Tatar resettlement song of the late 1850s – early 1860s, preserved in the St. Petersburg branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the collection of Khusain Faizkhanov. We only knew earlier about the recording of a close text from the so-called “jonk of the Mansursky family” published in 1941 by Victor Filonenko.

Keywords: Crimean Tatar folk poetry, resettlement songs, Gözlev (Evpatoria), Khusain Faizkhanov, Victor Filonenko

For citation: Zaytsev I.V. New version of the Crimean Tatar resettlement song “Türki Kırım”. Krymskoe istoricheskoe obozrenie=Crimean Historical Review. 2025, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 156–166. DOI: 10.22378/kio.2025.3.156-166 (In Russian)

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About the author: Ilya V. Zaytsev – Dr. Sci. (History), Leading Researcher of the Sheikh Zayed Centre for Islamic Manuscripts, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (12, Rozhdestvenka Str., Moscow 107031, Russian Federation); ORCID: 0000-0001-8782-6929; ilyaaugust@yandex.ru

Received 23.05.2025

Accepted 05.08.2025