About two interesting passages published in “Fuyuzat” (“Blessing”) magazine

This article considers two passages of the prominent Crimean Tatar publicist and a writer A.S. Aivazov (1878–1938), dedicated to the conditions for the survival of national identity. Published in 1906 in the Baku magazine “Fuyuzat” (“Blessing”), they have not been known to modern researchers of the author’s work until now. The article particularly emphasizes that of the Crimean authors, contemporaries of I. Gasprinsky, the first to speak out with sharp criticism of some publications in the newspaper “Terdzhiman” was A.S. Aivazov. Despite of the fact that the criticism was quite sharp, the relationships between Ismail Gasprinsky and A.S. Aivazov did not deteriorate, and even Gasprinsky before his death in 1914 bequeathed to A.S. Aivazov the position of editor-in-chief of the newspaper. And so it happened. A.S. Aivazov remained in the position of editor-in-chief of “Terdzhiman” until July, 1917.