Chergeev’s Second Imprisonment (Archival Materials)
Journal: Crimean Historical Review
Year: 2025

In February and March of this year, we discovered and copied unique documents related to the interrogation and imprisonment of the classic Crimean Tatar writer Asan Memetoglu Chergeev (1880-1946) in the Central Archives of Crimea. This occurred on April 27, 1931. This event marked the author’s second imprisonment. The first was initiated and carried out by the tsarist regime in 1912 for a poem published in Dzhankoy in 1909 under the title “Eshit, mevta ne sevleyur” (“Listen to what the dead man