Origin of Turgut
The origin of the Turgut tribe begins at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.
After the Yuan Dynasty lost the Central Plains, the Yuan Dynasty court still had a large area of territory beyond the Han Dynasty, and history referred to this regime as the Northern Yuan. At first, the northern yuan and the Ming dynasty were evenly matched, but as the emperors of the late northern yuan were more incompetent, eventually, the northern yuan divided into several tribes, the more famous of which was called the Wallachians.
During the war with the Ming Dynasty, Walla captured Emperor Yingzong of Ming. The chief of the Walla also killed the Mongol Great Khan from the Golden Family, and established himself as the Great Khan of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, preparing to destroy the Ming Dynasty and restore the Yuan Dynasty.
This fake Northern Yuan Emperor died before he could destroy the Ming Dynasty, and the Wallachian tribe also moved west to Xinjiang and Central Asia because it was squeezed by other Mongol tribes, and divided into multiple tribes at the end of the Ming Dynasty. Among them, the Dzungars were the most powerful and had the idea of annexing other tribes. In order to avoid the annexation of the Dzungars, the Turks, also from the Wala, moved west to the Volga River, where they established the Turk Khanate and recuperated.
The transformation of Turgut
When Turgut moved west, Russia had just risen. When Ayuchi Khan was the Turgut Khan, Russia had clashed with Turgut, and eventually because of the strength of Turgut, Russia had to treat the Turgut Khanate as an equal.
After the death of Ayutich Khan, Turgut and Russia went in opposite directions, Turgut began to decline, while Russia entered a stage of rising national power, and finally, in the face of Russian military oppression, the Turgut Khanate had to submit to Russia.
At this time, Tsarist Russia's foreign wars were also particularly frequent, especially wars with the Ottoman Empire, which became one of the main lines of Tsarist Russian history at that time. Tsarist Russia continued to send Turks as soldiers to fight the Ottoman Empire, and a large number of Turks were killed in the war.
In the course of the war between Tsarist Russia and the Ottoman Empire, the Qing Empire also fought a war with the Dzungar Khanate for nearly a hundred years, and finally, the Qing Dynasty destroyed the Dzungar Khanate.
After the news of the demise of the Dzungar Khanate reached the Turk Khanate, the Turks' Wolbasi Khan weighed it up and decided that if turks continued to participate in the war against the Ottoman Empire, then the demise was sooner or later, and since the Dzungar Khanate, which endangered the Turks, had already perished, the Turks could consider returning to their homeland in Dzungar and continuing to multiply and live away from the wars between Russia and the Ottoman Empire. Thus there was the famous Turgut moving east.
The part that is left behind
When Turgut moved west, part of the tribe was on the west bank of the Volga River. Wolbasi Khan originally planned to take advantage of the opportunity of the Ice of the Volga River in the winter to let the Turks on the east and west banks return to their homeland of Dzungar together, but in the winter of that year, the Volga River did not freeze, and Wolbasi Khan was worried that the delay would change, so he began to return to the east with the tribes on the east bank.
After this, the Turks in the West Bank were closely monitored by Tsarist Russia, and at the same time continued to undertake military service in Tsarist foreign wars. In the Soviet era, this part of the Turks was exiled and other persecutions, and were forced to leave their homes. At present, this part of the Turks is called kalmyks, and the Kalmyk Republic (a member state of Russia) was established, with a population of about 300,000 or so.