Urban space of Inner Asia in travelogues of Russian orientalism in the 19th and early 20th centuries

The article is a continuation of the study of the perception of “other” within the framework of the binary “Friend — Alien” based on criteria that we have singled out in the previous publication. To confirm the initial conclusions, we significantly expanded a number of domestic “travel writings” of missionaries, scientists, military men, publicists and expeditionaries of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Using the literary theory of the travelogue genre verging on nonfictional literature (diaries, reports, memoirs, notes, epistolaries) we have come to the conclusion about its possible application in historical re-search, and identified several topics that are most often encountered in the texts of travelers: border, space and town, that affects the entire sensory sphere of a person (vision, smell, hearing), causing in most cases the initial rejection, which is replaced with conformation over time, but does not disappear completely.