A case study for the institutional management of the Caucasus studies in Russian Empire
https://doi.org/10.31143/2542-212X-2022-2-55-68
EDN: CINGXA
Abstract
This article discusses the history of the scientific institutions functioning established in the second half of the XIX century in Caucasus to study it. Particular attention is paid to the role of the military department in the construction of the institutional space in Caucasian studies, which is little studied in historiography. Attention is drawn to the participation of the military in the work of the Caucasian Department of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society (IRGO), as well as to the main directions and results of the Military History Department activities at the headquarters of the Caucasian Military District. Based on the works of pre-revolutionary authors, as well as documents from the Russian State Military Historical Archive, it is concluded that the military administration of the Caucasus took an active part in organizing the scientific study of the region. Representatives of the local headquarters occupied leading positions in the Caucasian department of the IRGS. Some military men became active participants in the geographical, ethnographic and linguistic study of the Caucasus, including I.I. Khodzko, I.I. Stebnitsky, P.K. Uslar, A.V. Komarov. Created at the headquarters of the Caucasian Military District, the Military History Department gained the status of an important scientific and educational center on the Caucasian outskirts of the empire. His research practices formed an empirical basis for further scientific study of the military past of the Caucasus.
About the Author
T. A. Kolosovskaya
North Caucasus Federal University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Tatiana А. Kolosovskaya – Doctor of Science (History)
Stavropol
References
1. Akty, sobrannye Kavkazskoi arkheograficheskoi komissiei [Acts collected by the Caucasian Archaeographic Commission] / Edited by. A.P. Berzhe. – Tiflis, 1866. – Vol. 1. – 816 p. (In Russ.).
2. BAZYLEVA E.A. Kavkazskii otdel Imperatorskogo Russkogo Geograficheskogo obshchestva i ego biblioteka [Caucasian Department of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society and its library]. IN: Omskii nauchnyi vestnik. – 2015. – № 5 (142). – P. 12-15. (In Russ.).
3. BEKOEVA T.A., BEKOEVA E.D. Deyatel'nost' rossiiskikh uchenykh, chlenov Kavkazskogo otdela Imperatorskogo russkogo geograficheskogo obshchestva po prosveshcheniyu gortsev [The activities of Russian scientists, members of the Caucasian Department of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society for the education of the highlanders]. IN: Ekonomicheskie i gumanitarnye issledovaniya regionov. – 2015. – № 3. – P. 15-22. (In Russ.).
4. ZAGURSKII L.P. Nekrolog P.K. Uslara [Obituary P.K. Uslara] IN: Izvestiya Kavkazskogo otdela IRGO. – Tiflis, 1875. – Vol. IV. – P. 38–49. (In Russ.).
5. Kavkaz: gazeta politicheskaya i literaturnaya [Caucasus: political and literary newspaper]. – Tiflis, 1846. – 1917. (In Russ.).
6. Kavkazskii kalendar' [Caucasian calendar]. – Tiflis, 1845 – 1916. (In Russ.).
7. KOZhOKOV M.K., ABAZOV A.Kh., KOZhOKOV A.M. Kavkazskii otdel Imperatorskogo Russkogo Geograficheskogo obshchestva: iz istorii razvitiya akademicheskoi nauki na Kavkaze v dorevolyutsionnyi period [Caucasian Department of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society: from the history of the development of academic science in the Caucasus in the pre-revolutionary period]. IN: Ustoichivoe razvitie: problemy, kontseptsii, modeli. Materialy Vserossiiskoi konferentsii s mezhdunarodnym uchastiem. – Nal'chik: KBNTs RAN, 2017. – P. 159-162. (In Russ.).
8. KOLESNIKOVA M.E. Severokavkazskaya istoriograficheskaya traditsiya: vtoraya polovina XVIII – nachalo XX veka. [North Caucasian historiographical tradition: the second half of the 18th - the beginning of the 20th century]. – Stavropol': SGU, 2011. – 496 p. (In Russ.).
9. KOLOSOVSKAYA T.A. «Zabyvaya proshloe, nel'zya nichemu nauchit'sya i v budushchem». Doklad general-maiora V.A. Potto o tsentralizatsii arkhivov na Kavkaze i ustroistve Kavkazskogo voenno-istoricheskogo muzeya v 1900 g. ["Forgetting the past, you can not learn anything in the future." Report of Major General V.A. Potto on the centralization of archives in the Caucasus and the organization of the Caucasian Military History Museum in 1900]. IN: Voenno-istoricheskii zhurnal. – 2016. – № 7. – P. 58-63. (In Russ.).
10. KOLOSOVSKAYA T.A. Istoriya Kavkazskogo voenno-istoricheskogo otdela v litsakh [History of the Caucasian military-historical department in persons]. – Stavropol': «Pechatnyi Dvor», 2020. – 208 p. (In Russ.).
11. KOMAROV A.V. Narodonaselenie Dagestanskoi oblasti (s etnograficheskoi kartoi) [The population of the Dagestan region (with an ethnographic map)]. IN: Zapiski Kavkazskogo otdela IRGO. – Tiflis, 1873. – Vol. VIII. – P. 1-49. (In Russ.).
12. MAKSIMChIK A.N., MANYShEV S.B. «…Sobrat' iz arkhivov glavneishie akty i svedeniya…» (Kavkazskaya arkheograficheskaya komissiya i arkhivnoe delo na Kavkaze vo vtoroi polovine XIX v.) ["... Collect the most important acts and information from the archives ..." (Caucasian Archaeographic Commission and Archival Affairs in the Caucasus in the second half of the 19th century)]. IN: Novoe proshloe. – 2020. – № 2. – P. 44-61. (In Russ.).
13. MUDROVA N.P. O metodike sbora ustnykh (fol'klornykh) istochnikov Kavkazskim otdelom Russkogo geograficheskogo obshchestva [On the method of collecting oral (folklore) sources by the Caucasian Department of the Russian Geographical Society]. IN: Vestnik Maikopskogo gosudarstvennogo tekhnologicheskogo universiteta. – 2014. – № 2. – P. 11-15. (In Russ.).
14. PAGIREV D.D. Ocherk deyatel'nosti Kavkazskogo otdela IRGO [Essay on the activities of the Caucasian Department of the IRGS]. IN: Izvestiya Kavkazskogo otdela IRGO. – Tiflis, 1901. – Vol. XIV. – P. 144-151. (In Russ.).
15. PAROVA L.M. Sozdanie i deyatel'nost' Voenno-istoricheskogo otdela shtaba Kavkazskogo voennogo okruga [Creation and activity of the Military History Department of the headquarters of the Caucasian Military District]. IN: Voenno-istoricheskii zhurnal. – 1988. – № 5. – P. 87-91. (In Russ.).
16. POTTO V.A. Pamyatniki vremen utverzhdeniya russkogo vladychestva na Kavkaze [Monuments of the time of the establishment of Russian rule in the Caucasus]. – Tiflis, 1906. – Vol. I. – 160 p.; 1909. – Vol. II. – 248 p. (In Russ.).
17. Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi voenno-istoricheskii arkhiv [Russian State Military Historical Archive]. (In Russ.).
18. SEMEVSKII M. Adol'f Petrovich Berzhe [Adolf Petrovich Berger]. IN: Russkaya starina. – 1886. – Vol. 3. – P. 727-729. (In Russ.).
19. SEMENOV P.P. Istoriya poluvekovoi deyatel'nosti Imperatorskogo russkogo geograficheskogo obshchestva. 1845–1895 [The history of half a century of activity of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society. 1845–1895]. – St. Petersburg, 1896. – Vol. 1. – 514 p. (In Russ.).
20. SOBRIEVSKII A.S. Knyaz' Vorontsov i nashi arkhivy [Prince Vorontsov and our archives]. IN: Trudy Stavropol'skoi uchenoi arkhivnoi komissii. – Stavropol', 1911. – Vol. 1. – P. 1-14. (In Russ.).
21. STEBNITSKII I.I. Neskol'ko slov po povodu rel'efnoi karty Kavkazskogo kraya [A few words about the relief map of the Caucasus region]. IN: Izvestiya IRGO. – St. Petersburg, 1868. – Vol. IV. – P. 309-316. (In Russ.).
22. TOMKEEV V.I. Programma Kavkazskogo sbornika [The program of the Caucasian collection]. IN: Kavkazskii sbornik. – Tiflis, 1912. – Vol. 32. – Ch. 1. – P. 1-2. (In Russ.).
23. Utverzhdenie russkogo vladychestva na Kavkaze. Programma [The assertion of Russian rule in the Caucasus. Program]. – Tiflis, 1901. – 22 p. (In Russ.).
Review
For citations:
Kolosovskaya T.A. A case study for the institutional management of the Caucasus studies in Russian Empire. Kavkazologiya. 2022;(2):55-68. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31143/2542-212X-2022-2-55-68. EDN: CINGXA
Views:
12
Email this article 