This article analyzes archival materials in Russian Oriental studies

related to Uzbek classical literature, particularly in the field of Babur

studies, which have so far remained outside the attention of the scholarly

community. The research is primarily based on sources preserved in major

academic centers in Saint Petersburg, including the archives of the

National Library of Russia, the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the

Institute of Oriental Manuscripts. The study employs archival Oriental

studies and imagology as methodological frameworks in order to

reconsider the historical-literary process and to illuminate previously

unknown aspects of Russian Babur studies.

The focus of the article is the published and unpublished scholarly

legacy of A.N. Samoylovich. His reviews of translations of the

“Baburnama,” his efforts to prepare a complete edition of the “Mubayyin,”

and his textual studies of the Paris and Rampur manuscripts of Baburʼs

Divan are introduced into academic circulation. The article also examines

manuscript materials related to the second part of “The Collection of

Poems of Emperor Babur.” Particular attention is paid to Samoylovichʼs

principles of translation studies, his rigorous and principled approach to

textual interpretation, and his observations concerning the genre, meter,

and linguistic features of Baburʼs poetry. In addition, the composition of

the Paris and Rampur manuscripts of Baburʼs Divan, their differences,

poems not included in the divans, and the comparative study of poetic

texts found in the “Baburnama” and other sources constitute significant

scholarly findings of the article. The study argues that examining archival

materials from imagological and textual perspectives contributes to the

development of new research directions in Uzbek literary studies and

provides an opportunity to reconstruct the history of Babur studies more

comprehensively and objectively.