Russian Conquest of Bukhara

The Conquest of Bokhara was an invasion of the Emirate of Bukhara by the Russian Empire.

War
The nomads of central Asia, who had produced great conquerors in the distant past, were little match for the disciplined armies of the 19th century. Raids by Muslim guerillas encouraged local Russian governors to take the initiative in subduing the central Asian khanates of Khiva and Bukhara. Envoys from Russia and Britain to Bokhara were treated with arogance and contempt, and in 184 two British officers were imprisoned and killed. In the early 1860s the Bukharans managed to fend off Russian advances, but in May 1866 they were defeated. The Russians then established a governor-general of Turkmenistan, on the Jaxartes River. The war resumed in 1868, when the emir was forced to accept vassal status. Khiva was formally annexed by the Soviet Union in 1920.