Regarding the origin of the Manjits, some historians believe that the Manjits were a tribe of the Mongols. They entered Central Asia because of the Mongolian expeditions westward. Later, they were assimilated by the local Turks, and some became Nogai people, and some became Uzbek

Starting from the first Mongolian expedition to the west, nomads who originally lived in the Mongolian Plateau , led by Genghis Khan and his descendants, began to live in Central Asia. Later, with the collapse of Chagatai Khanate, Mongolian was quickly assimilated by other ethnic groups. However, until modern times, there were still rulers with Mongolian blood in Central Asia. The Arim Khan to be introduced in this article is one of them, who was the last king of the Bukhara Emirates.

△ Colorful restoration photos of Arim Khan

The predecessor of the Bukhara emirate, can be traced back to the dynasty established by Xibani, a descendant of Genghis Khan, . In 1599 AD, due to the extinction of the Sybani family, the Khan throne was transferred to the descendants of the Astrakhan Khanate , which is known in history as the Astrakhan Dynasty.

By 1785 AD, the power of the Astrakhan dynasty began to be controlled by the Manjits. The daughter of the last Khan married a nobleman of the Manjits, and the Manjits became the rulers of the Khanate. And this nobleman was named Shamulad, and he was the ancestor of Arim Khan.

Regarding the origin of the Manjits, some historians believe that the Manjits are a tribe of the Mongols. entered Central Asia because of the Mongolian expedition to the west. Later, they were assimilated by the local Turks. Some became Nogae , and some became Uzbek .

△Arim Khan's father Ahad Khan

Since the Manjits are not descendants of Genghis Khan, they cannot become the legal heirs of the Khan throne, They cannot become Khans, they can only regard themselves as " Emir " (chief or king).

Arim Khan was born in Bukhara City in 1880 AD. His father was the eleventh Emir Ahhad Khan of the Bukhara Emirates. However, the Bukhara Emirates at that time had become the "protective country" of Tsarist Russia in 1873 due to the failure of the war.

Arim Khan spent his childhood in Bukhara City, where he received basic education. When he was thirteen years old, Arim Khan was sent by his father to study at the military academy in St. Petersburg. During this period, Arim Khan learned Russian and met many children of Russian nobles.

△Arim Khan in military uniform

In 1896, Arim Khan joined the Delek Cossack army and became an adjutant. It was in this year that Arim Khan completed his studies and returned to his hometown and became the crown prince of the Bukhara emirate.

When Arim Khan was thirty, his father passed away. Arim Khan inherited his father's throne and was congratulated by Tsar Nicholas II .

Arim Khan also wanted to make the Bukhara emirates strong through rectification. The first thing he did when he took office was to rectify the corruption in the palace. He declared that he and his entourage would no longer accept any gifts and prohibited the ministers from accepting bribes.

△Arim Khan’s mausoleum in Kabul

However, the Bukhara emirates at that time could no longer be saved by Arim Khan’s own efforts, including Tsar Russia, the protector of the Bukhara emirates, which was already shaking at this time.

By November 1917, the October Revolution broke out in Russia, and the Tsarist Russia declared its demise. The demise of Tsarist Russia quickly affected the Bukhara emirates. Just three years later, under the leadership of Fulongzhi , a well-equipped Soviet Red Army invaded Bukhara City. Arim Khan fled to Afghanistan with his family, and the Bukhara emirates declared its demise.

Arim Khan spent the rest of his life in Afghanistan, who died in 1944 and his body was buried in Kabul. Before his death, Arim Khan left a will, asking his family to write this passage on his epitaph: "The emir without a motherland is pathetic and insignificant, and the beggar who died in his hometown is the real emir."

△Arim Khan and his son

Arim Khan have many wives and concubines, so he has many descendants. Currently, his descendants are about 500, distributed all over the world.When Arim Khan escaped from Bukhara, he had three young sons who failed to escape from Bukhara because it was too sudden. These three children were later sent to the orphanage in Moscow .

And the three sons of Arim Khan who lived in Moscow had one named Shahmurad, who later became a general of the Soviet Red Army. In 1922, Shahmurad was sent to Germany to study. After returning from his studies, Shahmurad aspired to become a soldier. In 1930, he broke off relations with his father Arim Khan and then entered the Moscow Military Engineering Academy.

After Shahmurad graduated, he successfully joined the Soviet Red Army and later won the rank of major general. When Patriotic War broke out, Shahmurad also joined the war. He lost one leg in the war. After the war, Shahmurad served as an instructor in the military academy where he once attended until his death in 1985.

Reference: "The Last Emir of Bukhara"