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The article analyzes the image of the Kazakh steppe and the Kazakh people, created by the famous scientist and statesman A.I. Levshin in his fundamental work -"Description of the Kyrgyz-Cossack, or Kyrgyz-Kaisatsky, hordes and steppes." In the work of the researcher, the steppe appears as a huge, remote, little-studied space, an anhydrous and poor in vegetation desert, economically suitable, first of all, for the development of nomadic cattle breeding. A.I. Levshin's perception of the Kazakh people, like other representatives of the European educated society, takes place within the framework of an enlightening worldview and its characteristic opposition of “savagery” and “civilization”. At the same time, the researcher to a greater extent used such theoretical model of comprehension the “wild” people, according to which the Kazakh society is at a lower stage of world-historical development than the civilized society to which the author relates. Kazakhs, in the perception of A.I. Levshin, these are “halfwild predators”, “nomadic robbers”, albeit not without completely positive qualities.

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The Image of the Kazakh People and the Kazakh Steppe in the Treatise of A.I. Levshin «Description of the Kyrgyz-Cossack, or Kyrgyz-Kaisatsky, Hordes and Steppes»