Issue 2 (63)
| A. M. DONDUKOV-KORSAKOV’S “REVISION” OF THE CAUCASUS REGION IN 1882 | |||
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| Year | 2019 | Number | 2(63) |
| Pages | 79-86 | Type | scientific article |
| UDC | 94(470)“1882” | BBK | 63.3(2)552 |
| Authors | Volkhonskiy Michael A. |
Topic | CENTER AND PERIPHERY IN THE SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT |
| Summary | The article, based on the materials of the Russian State Historical Archive and the periodical press, deals with the results of the Caucasus region “revision”. New chief commander in the Caucasus, Prince A. M. Dondukov-Korsakov, who personally wanted to understand the political and socioeconomic situation in the province, held this inspection from February to October 1882. The “revision” was not aimed at identifying further ways to modernize the region, but at clarifying the factors that had undermined social and political stability in the Caucasus. A. M. Dondukov-Korsakov presented the results of the inspection in a special note sent to St. Petersburg in December 1882 for consideration by Emperor Alexander III. The note’s author outlined two main directions of the new government course in the Caucasus: the first one — the prevention of unrest of that part of local non-Russian population, which demonstrated disloyal attitudes; the second one is a systematic improvement of the socio-economic conditions of life of both Russian and non-Russian population of the region. | ||
| Keywords | Russian Empire, Caucasian region, chief of the civil part in the Caucasus, A. M. Dondukov-Korsakov, Alexander III, Georgian nobility, Armenian intelligentsia, Transcaucasia Muslim population, Terek and Kuban Cossacks | ||
| References |
Werth P. Pravoslavie, inoslavie, inoverie. Ocherki po istorii religioznogo raznoobraziya Rossijskoj imperii [Orthodoxy, Non-Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy: Sketches on the History of Religious Diversity in the Russian Empire.] Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie Publ., 2012, 210 š. (in Russ.). |
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