Аннотация
The article discusses the traditional, predominantly Islamic, educational system (with its maktabs and madrasahs) in Tashkent and Turkestan in general, prior to the region’s colonization by the Russians, and the (limited) effects of the colonial authorities’ attempts to impose their policy of Russification through the establishment of Russian-indigenous schools. The Russian policies in Turkestan resemble those of the French in Algeria, but they were less successful.