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209

106 Ibid., Letter from Golitsyn to Pobedonostsev, 11 October 1902, l. 36.
107 rgia, f. 799, op. 25, 1900–15, d. 808, Letter from viceroy to Sergei
Mikhailovich Luk’ianov, 9 November 1910, l. 177.
108 Ibid.
109 Ibid., Decree signed by Pobedonostsev, 29 March 1902, l. 67; Letter from
viceroy to ober-procurator, 3 October 1906, l. 111.
110 Ibid., Letter from Vorontsov-Dashkov to S.M. Luk’ianov, 9 November
1910, l. 179.
111 Ibid., From Department of Orthodox Faith to Office of the Viceroy,
2October 1913, l. 231.
112 Ibid., From ober-procurator of Holy Synod to Holy State Synod, 4 July
1914, ll. 240–1.
113 rgia, f. 799, op. 25, 1898–99, d. 450, Delo “Po khodataistvam ob otpuske
summy na postroiku tserkvi v slobody Vedeno, Vladikavkazskoi
eparkhii,” Report from Episkop Vladimir of Vladikavkaz and Mozdok
to Holy Synod, 5 October 1898, l. 2.
114 rgia, f. 799, op. 26, 1915, d. 1701, Letter from Construction Committee,
village of Vedeno, to Elisaveta Fedorovna, 9 June 1915, l. 2.
115 Ibid.
116 Ibid. For similar references to the demoralizing contrast between
Russian prayer houses and beautiful Chechen mosques, see rgia, f. 799,
op. 25, 1898–99, d. 450, Letter from Aleksei Ofiptsov, 9 January 1898, l. 7.
117 rgia, f. 799, op. 25, 1898–99, d. 450, Letter from commander of troops of
Caucasus Military District to ober-procurator of Holy Synod, 28 Novem-
ber 1898, l. 4.
118 rgia, f. 799, op. 26, 1915, d. 1701, Letter from official of Ved. Prav. Isp.,
Vladikavkaz, to Aleksandr A. Osetskii, l. 4.

conclusion

1 Tsereteli, Perezhitoe, 182.

2 gviarf, f. vua, op. 1, 1841–42, d. 6440, l. 2.

3 Gershenzon, Istoriia Molodoi Rossii, 18–20, 40–7; Lobikova, “Kavkaz v

tvorchestve Pushkina,” 283.

4 Armstrong, Yermak’s Campaign in Siberia, 52, 55, 68, 241, 281; Forsyth,

AHistory of the Peoples of Siberia, 29; Nolde, La formation de l’Empire russe,

1:36.

5 Polnoe sobranie zakonov Rossiiskoi Imperii, vol. 35, part 1 (1860), no. 35519,

191.

6 See Kappeler, La Russie, 29, 37, 60.

7 Cited in Wolff, Inventing Eastern Europe, 211.

8 droeba, no. 5 (20 April 1870):1.

9 iveria, no. 1 (1 January 1886):1.

Notes to pages 143–7