page_title: Russian Turkestan
section_title: Governors of Turkestan
hierarchical_section_title: Russian Turkestan / History / Governors of Turkestan
caption_attribution_description: English: A 1903 map of Central Asia, including Central Asian Russia.
context_page_description: Russian Turkestan was the western part of Turkestan within the Russian Empire’s Central Asian territories, and was administered as a Krai or Governor-Generalship. It comprised the oasis region to the south of the Kazakh Steppe, but not the protectorates of the Emirate of Bukhara and the Khanate of Khiva.
context_section_description: Turkestan had 21 Governor-generals.
  1865–1867 Mikhail Grigoryevich Chernyaev (Military Governor)
  1866–1867 Dmitri Ilyich Romanovskiy (Civil Governor)
  1867–1881 Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufman
  1881–1882 Gerasim Alexeevich Kolpakovsky
  1882‒4 Mikhail Chernyayev
  1884‒9 Nikolai Rozenbakh
  1889–1898 Alexander Borisovich Vrevsky
  1898–1901 Sergey Mikhailovich Dukhovsky
  1901–1904 Nikolay Alexandrovich Ivanov
  1904–1905 Nikolay Nikolayevich Tevyashev
  1905–1906 Vsevolod Victorovich Zaharov
  1906 Dean Ivanovich Subotich
  1906 Yevgeny Osipovich Matsievsky
  1906–1908 Nikolai Ivanovich Grodekov
  1908–1909 Pavel Ivanovich Mischenko
  1909–1910 Alexander Vasilyevich Samsonov
  1910–1911 Vasiliy Ivanovich Pokotilo
  1911–1914 Alexander Vasilyevich Samsonov (restored)
  1914–1916 Fedor Vladimirovich Martson
  1916 Mikhail Romanovich Yerofeyev
  1916‒17 Aleksey Kuropatkin
caption: The borders of the Russian imperial territories of Kiva, Bukhara and Kokand in the time period of 1902–1903.
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