Orientalism and Empire. North Caucasus Mountain Peoples and the Georgian Frontier, 1845-1917

57 The Society for the Restoration of Orthodoxy empire, in particular for the imperial family, high officials, and many Russians ...

58 Orientalism and Empire comprehensible to its religious-minded proponents. Religious think- ers such as Khomiakov or Il’minski ...

4 Narodnost’: Russian Ethnographers and Caucasus Mountaineers If a substantial seed of the spiritual life of a people [narod] fa ...

60 Orientalism and Empire participation that scholars usually associate with the rise of national- ism in Europe. Ivan Kireevski ...

61 Russian Ethnographers and Caucasus Mountaineers StGiorgi Church in Tbilisi and was attended by prominent Russians, Georgians, ...

62 Orientalism and Empire They also drew on the general thirst for colonial travel and explora- tion beyond the boundaries of “c ...

63 Russian Ethnographers and Caucasus Mountaineers mountainside to terrorize the plain.^26 Russian Romanticism and European trav ...

64 Orientalism and Empire officials such as Mikhail Speransky and Mikhail Vorontsov were de- termined to use this emerging schol ...

65 Russian Ethnographers and Caucasus Mountaineers Tsereteli applauded the work of Viceroy Vorontsov for his establish- ment of ...

66 Orientalism and Empire issued its Zapiski Kavkazskago Otdela Imperatorskago Geograficheskago Obschestva (Memorandum of the Ca ...

67 Russian Ethnographers and Caucasus Mountaineers around the empire “lies around unused,” as an early Geographic Society procla ...

68 Orientalism and Empire newly colonized regions and represented a “new epoch of civic life” in the borderlands.^62 A preoccupa ...

69 Russian Ethnographers and Caucasus Mountaineers “classical” antiquity they memorialized was that of the Byzantine heritage of ...

70 Orientalism and Empire mentality, “by nature foreign to order and subservience,” into “some- thing similar to a correctly org ...

71 Russian Ethnographers and Caucasus Mountaineers in the regions of Kars and Batumi remained, in his estimation, dis- turbingly ...

72 Orientalism and Empire in dances and festivals in mountain villages: “I was unable to sleep; Ilay in a half-conscious state, ...

73 Russian Ethnographers and Caucasus Mountaineers was similar. In 1858 the editors announced the creation of a special “rubric” ...

74 Orientalism and Empire Russian narod, possessed the necessary attributes to prosper and progress. Early Russian writers of et ...

75 Russian Ethnographers and Caucasus Mountaineers The teachers were responding to the initiatives of their colleagues in Tbilis ...

76 Orientalism and Empire contained an early attempt to list the various “Abkhaz tribes,” “Cherkes [Adygei] tribes,” “Tatar trib ...