Vladimir Nalivkin

civil government for the new territory of Russian Turkestan, becoming head of the governing committee and representing the capital Tashkent in Imperial State Duma. Nalivkin went into hiding after the territory fell to communists during the Russian Revolution, and committed suicide

Pavel Military School in Saint Petersburg, opting to serve in the Orenburg

ethnologist and explorer in Fergana, and authored the first Russian-Uzbek dictionary.^[1] Additionally, during this time Nalivkin coauthored an ethnography entitled Muslim Women of the Fergana Valley: A 19th Century Ethnography from Central Asia with his wife, Maria Nalivkina. Between 1878 - 1884, Maria Nalivkina learned the local language and gained an intimate insight into the lives of ordinary Sart women. Nalivkina’s contribution to the ethnography was the first to explore the lives of women in the area. Nalivkin was later appointed as the head of the Turkestan Committee of the Provisional Government set up shortly after the annexation of the territory into the Russian Empire was complete, and represented the capital Tashkent in the Imperial State Duma

communist-led committee which appointed new chiefs. Nalivkin was sent into hiding, and on 20 January 1918 committed suicide.^[2]