The purpose of the dissertation is to study the policy of the Russian Empire in the Younger Zhuz of Kazakhs on the basis of archival sources and published materials, create a holistic picture of the perception of the empire and power institutions by nomads, "look through the eyes" of subordinate Kazakhs and its elite at the policy of the empire in the region and hear "voices of the past from the steppe." The study of these problems should fill the existing gap in the historiography of the topic under study.