The Qushbegi Chancellery of the Bukhara Emirate

Chancellery (administration) of the Bukhara Emirate is a collection of the largest archives of Central Asian rulers in Bukhara. It reflects historical events during the period of more than 200 years in the territory of modern Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and partly Afghanistan. It also provides substantive information about diplomatic relations of the Bukhara Emirate with Russia, Great Britain, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Japan, and United States of America as well as with Khiva and the Kokand khanates in Central Asia. Currently stored in the Central State Archive of the Republic of Uzbekistan (reference number: I-126), all documents in this collection are proved to be original and authentic. The collection consists of nearly 9,5 thousand folders (about 200 thousand separate ones) written in several languages, such as Arabic, Persian, Uzbek Chagatai, Russian and others.