Historical and ethnographic information about the peoples of the Central Caucasus in the materi-als of the expedition of G.A. Emanuel to the foot of Elbrus in 1829

For the first time, the article analyzes historical and ethnographic information obtained during the expedition to Elbrus, organized by the commander of the troops on the Caucasian line, in Chernomoriya and Astrakhan, the head of the Caucasian region, General G.A. Emanuel, using a comparative method. Some of the identified information of that period is unique, and their introduction It will expand the scientific understanding of Caucasian scholars about the peoples of the region.

The research was based on the works of A.Ya. Kupfer and J.-S. de Beche, which contain, among other things, unique information about Circassians (Adyghe), Karachays, Malkars, Bezengians, Khulamians, Chegemians, Urusbians and Digorians about the policy of the Russian Empire in the Caucasus, toponymy in Circassian (Adyghe) language along the route of the expedition., about how the name of the Kuban River appeared, about the political structure and customs of the Circassians, as well as the ethnogenesis of the Karachays, Bezengians, Malkars and Urusbians. This study compares these sources with the information known at the time by S. Bronevsky, Yu.G. Klaproth, and several other authors. The former collected and summarized almost all the records of scientists who described the Caucasus at the time, with the exception of Yu.G. Klaproth, whose work was first published in Germany, so S. Bronevsky did not use it in his work. Therefore, these sources are analyzed separately.

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