2025. no 4. Ismail Kerimov

Chergeev’s Second Imprisonment
(Archival Materials)

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

Abstract. In February and March of this year, we discovered and copied unique documents related to the interrogation and imprisonment of the classic Crimean Tatar writer Asan Memetoglu Chergeev (1880-1946) in the Central Archives of Crimea. This occurred on April 27, 1931. This event marked the author’s second imprisonment. The first was initiated and carried out by the tsarist regime in 1912 for a poem published in Dzhankoy in 1909 under the title “Eshit, mevta ne sevleyur” (“Listen to what the dead man says”).

The documents from 1931 are primarily biographical in nature, revealing interesting details of his private and family life.

This article examines various facts, juxtaposed with the recollections of the writer’s relatives, allowing us to more fully uncover the creative and personal trajectory of Asan Memetoglu Chergeev.

Keywords: Biography of Asan Memetoglu Chergeev, the author’s arrest in 1931, unknown facts of his life

For citation: Kerimov I.A. Chergeev’s Second Imprisonment (Archival Materials). Krymskoe istoricheskoe obozrenie=Crimean Historical Review. 2025, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 144–149. DOI: 10.22378/kio.2025.4.144-149 (In Crimean Tatar)

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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, Uchebnyy lane, Simferopol 295015, Russian Federation); Leading Research Fellow 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 24.05.2025

Accepted 15.08.2025