This project goes over the story and history of the Dzungars, its people, rulers and ultimate end. Everything presented is based on real events but presented in a more easily digestible format.

This chart should be mostly accurate but there are some speculations included. To start off with: Lady Anu is usually said to have been the Daughter of either Ochirtu Khan of the Khoshut, or his son Galdama. Considering Galdama’s age, Anu is depicted as his younger sister here instead of daughter, however it is still possible that she was his daughter if she was younger than Galdan and Sengge instead of around the same age. Though the Kazakhs are not part of the Dzungar clan system, they did intermarry a lot later on. Women are usually not mentioned by name within Kazakh documents so finding out who their wives parents is difficult, and who people were married to sometimes varies from account to account. Ablai Khan of the Kazakhs most likely had one Dzungar wife who has related to Amursana (possibly an older half-sister or cousin), meanwhile Amursana is stated to have married a daughter of Ablai during his first escape to Kazakhstan during the civil war against Lama Dorji. Per Russian account from Governor Neplyuev: Amursana did not say much other than that he was the son to the daughter of the Khong Taiji (most likely Tsewang Rabtan), and that he had had 2 wives. The first died shorty after they were married and was named Ishi Sonom, in this chart she is listed as Ablai’s daughter however there is no direct evidence to say that she was. His second wife was the daughter of the Dörbet Prince Dalai Dashi, with her he had 3 children (either 2 daughters and 1 boy or 2 sons and 1 daughter), they were stuck in Mongolia during Amursana’s rebellion and whatever happened to them afterwards is not known. Lastly he had a 3rd wife who was named Buti/Bitey, she was the daughter of Galdan Tseren and the two never officially married. Amursana stated that her husband had been Ishi-Danjin and that he had died to smallpox, whoever who Ishi-Danjin was is unknown. In Oirat culture marrying widows was usually the duty of the surviving brother or close relative of the deceased’s husband, it is unknow if they were related but it is also unknown why Amursana would marry Bitey otherwise. Bitey also already had a son by the name of Puntsuk whom she would take to Kalmykia and later St. Petersburg to convert to Christianity; Puntsuk would take the new Christian name of Dmitry, no further information on the last heir to the Dzungar throne has been discovered, but most likely he lived out the rest of his live quietly somewhere in Russia.