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102–5; and Georgia, 94;

and Russian legal tradi-

tion, 90–4; and Russifi-

cation, 105- 9; in Siberia

and on Kazakh steppe,

77, 127; and Soviet au-

thority, 155; in work of

Berzhe, 69

Dadiani, Prince David, 32
Dagestanis, 4, 8, 43, 51; at
Congress of Oriental-
ists, 78; crimes of, 98,
101–3; and customary
law, 95; and ethnogra-
phy, 74–5, 77, 79, 93; and
Fadeev, 134; and Geor-
gia, 70; imperial expan-
sion and, 13; and Islamic
education, 36; and land
reform, 34; maps of, 75;
and military service, 35;
and poddanstvo, 33–4; re-
bellion of, 27, 86; and
Russian law, 92; in Sara-
tov province, 31–2; and
Shamil, 116; Soviet con-
ception of, 157; Soviet
treatment of Sufi orders
among, 156; and Uslar,
80, 82; in work of Oma-
rov, 83, 151
Daniel-Bek, Sultan, 22
Danilevskii, Nikolai,
130–3, 150
Dargin, 4, 82, 98, 101
deportations of 1943–44.
See exile: of mountain
peoples
Dolgorukov, D.I., 62
Dondukov-Korsakov, Gov-
ernor-General A.M.: and
administrative units in
the North Caucasus, 85,
87; and customary law,
93–4; and Russification,
128–9
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 71, 88,
150; and Pan-Slavism,
130
Droeba, 7, 71, 81, 147; clos-
ing of, 129

Dzhemaledin (Jamal al-

Din), 114–15. See also

Shamil

Eastern question, 7, 56,

133–5

Elisaveta Fedorovna,

Grand Princess, 143

Elizabeth, Empress, 42, 45

encounter between Chris-

tianity and Islam, 11;

crusading mentality

and, 39–42, 149; ethnog-

raphy and, 148–50;

Georgia and, 46–7; im-

perial expansion and,

15–17; Slavophiles and,

39–40; Sufi resistance

and, 19–21. See also

Georgia and the forma-

tion of empire; Il’min-

skii, Nikolai; Ossetian

Spiritual Commission;

Society for the Restora-

tion of Orthodoxy; Sufi

Islam; Uslar, PeterK.

Eristavi, Rapiel; commem-

oration of, 60–1; on reli-

gion in the mountains,

45

Ermolov, Governor A.P.,

61, 75; and fortress con-

struction, 13; and moun-

tain courts, 97; and

native elites, 18, 34

ethnography, 5; and bor-

ders, 84–7; and cartogra-

phy, 75–6; and

collecting, 77–9, 153; and

customary law, 93–4, 96;

and encounter between

Christianity and Islam,

148–50; and Geographic

Society, 65–9; and

Georgia, 60–1, 70–1, 87;

and language, 80–4, 88;

and military, 73–4; and

narodnost’, 59–61, 87;

and nationalism, 71, 88;

and Orthodox history,

45–6; and travel litera-

ture, 61–3, 72, 76, 87; and

Vorontsov’s Tiflis, 63–5;

writing of, 71–4

European colonialism: and

administration, 34; and

customary law, 89–90,

95, 97, 107–8; and French

Kabyle myth, 6, 41–2, 97;

and missionary activity,

16; and native elites, 124;

and Orientalism, 5–6,

10–11, 62; and Sufi Is-

lam, 20–1; and turn-of-

the century frustration,

128 –9; in work of

Fadeev, 134–5; in work

of Strakhov, 132. See also

French Algeria

Evdokimov, General, 21,

24, 25

Evsevi, Archbishop: on

missionary work, 43, 47

exile: of Crimeans, 23; and

deportations of 1943–44,

37, 158; of mountain

peoples, 12, 22–7, 146;

and settlement, 137

Fadeev, Rostislav A., 134–5

Filaret, Metropolitan, 44

French Algeria: Abd al-

Qadir and, 20–1, 28;

and customary law,

107 –8; and Kabyle myth,

6, 41–2, 97; land reform

in, 34; similarities to

Russian Caucasus, 34,

62, 89–90, 128–9; in

work of Fadeev, 134–5.

See also European colo-

nialism

Gazi Muhammad, 20

gender and colonialism,

102 –5, 120–1

geography, 5; and encoun-

ter between Christianity

and Islam, 148; and

Peter the Great, 63. See

also cartography; eth-

nography; Imperial

Russian Geographic

Society