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The Yaushev family (, ) was a
Volga Tatar The Volga Tatars or simply Tatars (; ) are a Turkic ethnic group native to the Volga-Ural region of western Russia. They are subdivided into various subgroups. Volga Tatars are the second-largest ethnic group in Russia after ethnic Russians. ...
noble family that became incorporated into the
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.


Early history

The family is a branch of the
Ar begs Tatars ( )Tatar
in the Collins English Dictionary
are a group of
Yaush (), a nobleman mentioned in chronicles related to the
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in 1552. Descendants of Yaush were
Serving Tatars Serving Tatars (; ) were a class of ethnically Tatars state servants in Muscovy and Russia in 14th–18th centuries. Originally this class was formed Tatar nobles from Golden Horde and Tatar khanates that enjoyed membership of the Russian se ...
in Russia and were granted Russian noble title and land by
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. Under
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the Yaushev family was stripped of nobility for the refusal to convert from Islam to the
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. In the subsequent decades, parts of the family restored their title.


Merchant family

A branch of the larger Yaushev clan became a prominent merchant family in the 19th and early 20th century by trading between Russia and Central Asia. The merchant dynasty was founded in
Troitsk Troitsk (, ''Tróick'') is the name of several types of inhabited localities in Russia, inhabited localities in Russia. Modern localities ;Urban localities *Troitsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, a town in Chelyabinsk Oblast; *Troitsk, Moscow, a town in Tro ...
in the early 19th century by Gaisa Yaushev (1790–1870). It was later represented by his son Akhmedzhan Yaushev (1818–1875) and gained the largest influence under his grandsons Abdulvali Yaushev (1840–1906) and
Mullagali Yaushev Mullagali Akhmetzhanovich (Gali Akhmetovich) Yaushev (, , ''Mullağali Əxmətcan (Ğaliəxmət) ulı Yawşev''; December 5, 1864 – 1926) was a merchant of the First Guild. He was the head of the "Trading House of the Yaushev Brothers" and an i ...
(1864–1927). The family firm was known as the ''Trading House of the Yaushev Brothers'' ({{langx, ru, link=no, Торговый дом братьев Яушевых) in the early 20th century.Денисов Д. Н. Очерки по истории мусульманских общин Челябинского края (XVIII – начало XX в.) – М: Марджани, 2011 ssays on the history of Muslim communities in the Chelyabinsk Region, by Denis Denisov, 2011/ref> The Yaushev merchant family owned stores and trading arcades ("passages") in the
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(
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,
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,
Kustanay Kostanay or Qostanai (, , rus, Костанай, p=kəstɐˈnaj) is a city located on the Tobol River in northern Kazakhstan. It is the administrative center of the Kostanay Region. As of 24 March 2022, the city's governor is Marat Zhundubayev ...
) and Central Asia (
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), as well as cotton, tea, soap and leather manufactures in what now are Russia and Uzbekistan. The Yaushevs were sponsors and active members of the liberal Muslim movement in Russia,
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ism. They financed several Islamic modernist schools and mosques, such as the White Mosque in
Kustanay Kostanay or Qostanai (, , rus, Костанай, p=kəstɐˈnaj) is a city located on the Tobol River in northern Kazakhstan. It is the administrative center of the Kostanay Region. As of 24 March 2022, the city's governor is Marat Zhundubayev ...
. After the
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, the property of the Yaushev merchant family was nationalized by the bolsheviks. The family went into exile to Japan, China, the United States and Western Europe. Some members of the family later returned to
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.


Architecture related to the Yaushev merchant family

File:Здание пассажа братьев Якушевых.JPG, Yaushev trading arcade in
Troitsk Troitsk (, ''Tróick'') is the name of several types of inhabited localities in Russia, inhabited localities in Russia. Modern localities ;Urban localities *Troitsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, a town in Chelyabinsk Oblast; *Troitsk, Moscow, a town in Tro ...
, built in 1908-1911 File:1 - Торговый дом Яушевых (пассаж Яушевых) улица Труда, 92-а.JPG, Yaushev trading arcade in
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, built in 1912-1913 File:Махаля-мечеть №91.jpg, Zaynulla Rasulev Mosque in Troitsk, construction was financed in 1863-1864 by Gaisa Yaushev File:Здание мечети (Троицк).JPG, Gataulla Mulla Mosque in Troitsk, construction was financed in 1894–1895 by Abdulvali Yaushev File:Туркестан.jpg,
Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi The Mausoleum of Khawaja Ahmed Yasawi () is a mausoleum in the city of Turkistan (city), Turkestan, in southern Kazakhstan. The structure was commissioned in 1389 by Timur, who ruled the area as part of the expansive Timurid Empire, to replace a ...
, reparation works financed by the Yaushev family in 1899 File:Yakushev home.JPG, A house belonging to the Yaushev family in
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Muslim cleric family

A different branch of the Yaushev family became religious leaders in what is now northern
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in the second half of the 19th century and early 20th century. Gabdelbari Yaushev (1814—1894) and his son Gabdelvagap Yaushev (1859—1924) were
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s and
akhoond Akhund () is a Persian title or surname for Islamic scholars, common in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Azerbaijan. Other names for similar Muslim Scholar include Sheikh and Mullah. The Standard Chinese word for Imam ...
s in the city of
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ovsk and trustees of the mosque of the
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. The family remained in Russia after the revolution and maintained its role as religious leaders in Petropavlovsk during the first years of the Soviet regime.


Descendants

* The Soviet journalist Farid Seiful-Mulyukov was the grandson of the last head of the Yaushev merchant family, Mullagali Yaushev. * Fatykha Aitova (née Yausheva), the daughter of Abdulvali Yaushev, was the founder of the first women's gymnasium in
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in 1916.Рейтинг ProKazan: самые знаменитые женщины Татарстана прошлых лет
roKazan Rating: The Best-Known Women of Tatarstan in History ''prokazan.ru''
* Mukhamedzhan Seralin, Kazakh journalist, founder of the first
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in Kazakh language,
Ay Qap ''Ay Qap'' (آی قاپ, ''Айқап, Aıqap'' in modern scripts) was a Kazakh journal of opinion and debate published in Troitsk from January 1911 until September 1915 under the editorship of Mūhammedjan Seralin.Екатерина Байняшева. Что мы помним и знаем о великом земляке Мухамеджане Сералине?
hat do we know about our great compatriot Mukhamedzhan Seralin?Nash Kostanay, 29.05.2022


Sources

* Чайчиц А. ''Купцы Яушевы. Семейная история''. Казань: Татарское книжное издательство, 2020 aičics, A. ''The Yaushev Merchants: a Family History''. Kazan: Tatar Book Publishers, 2020">Tatar Book Publishers">aičics, A. ''The Yaushev Merchants: a Family History''. Kazan: Tatar Book Publishers, 2020


References

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