Alexey Nikolaevich Kuropatkin and his book entitled "The Conguest of Turkmenistan" (transcription and evaluation)

Aleksey Nikolayevic Kuropatkin lived between 1848-1925 and he had many senior positions in Czarist Russia army. You can find out his traces many areas that in North Africa, 1877-1878 Ottoman-Russia war, 1904-1905 Russia-Japan war and occupation of Turkistan by Russia. To understand how important he was at that time, we can look at his career. Some of his duties are: Trans-Caspian governorate, war ministry and Turkestan Guvernor-General. He started his military career at the age of 10, but ended his 50-year military career after the Bolshevik revolution. The most important feature that made his more special than other soldiers beyond the duties he took in the army was that he wrote about his observations, experiences and historical events throughout his military career. Hence, many of the work he wrote were used as a source for scientific studies. Especially his his works on the geography of Turkestan are important. The work titled "The Conguest of Turkmenistan" written by Kuropatkin, who took part in the occupation of Turkestan, is among the works to be evaluated in this context,