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transformation of rela-
tionship with Russians,
32, 33, 147
Shuanet, 29, 114, 116. See
also Shamil
Siberia, 31; conquest of, 12;
and conversion, 51; and
customary law, 93, and
military service, 36, 127;
and nobility, 18
Slavic Benevolent Society,
130
Slavonic Ethnographic
Exhibit, 130
Slavophiles, 47, 132;
Aksakov and, 56, 130;
and customary law, 91;
and indigenous tradi-
tion, 38–9, 59–60; and
Islam, 39–40
Society for the Restoration
of Orthodoxy, 3, 16, 126;
founding of, 42–4;
missionaries and teach-
ers, 47–58, 74, 82; and
native language instruc-
tion, 48–58. See also
Ossetian Spiritual
Commission
Society for the Spread of
Georgian Literacy, 81
Sollogub, G.V., 4, 72
Speransky, Mikhail, 64, 90
Stalin, Joseph, 156, 158–9
Starosel’skii, Dmitrii S., 52,
66, 85
Strakhov, Nikolai, 130, 132
Sufi Islam, 128; and con-
tinuing opposition after
defeat of Shamil, 27–9;
as impediment to devel-
opment of native cul-
ture, 46, 82–3; in North
Africa, 41; opposition to
Russian rule of, 19, 20,
74; Russian perceptions
of, 16, 26; and Shamil,
121, 125; and Soviet rule,
37, 156; in Soviet schol-
arship, 111
Svan, 79, 83, 105; religious
identity of, 43–4; and

Society for the Restora-

tion of Orthodoxy, 49–52

Sviatopolk-Mirskii, Prince

D.I., 33

Tabasaran, 4, 101, 102, 103

Temirgoi, 4, 24

Temir-Khan-Shura, 30, 33,

100, 116; and rebellion of

1877, 129

Terek Oblast Museum, 153

Tiflis Public Library, 67

Tiflis Seminary, 54, 159

Tiflis Theatre, 41; enlight-

enment and empire and,

64–5, 147; and Georgian

nationalism, 128

Tolstoy, Leo, 4; criticism of

conquest of, 61; and

Hadji Murat, 135- 6; as

young man in Tbilisi, 64

Tsereteli, Akaki, 60, 145

Tsereteli, Giorgi, 9, 65

Tsinandali, 113

Tsitsianov, Pavel D., 17, 18

Tsoraev, Vasilii, 84. See also

Uslar, PetrK.

Turkey. See Ottoman

Empire

Tushin, 94; religious iden-

tity of, 45, 47; and

Society for the Restora-

tion of Orthodoxy, 53–4;

in work of Zisserman,

65, 71–2, 77, 79

Ubykh, 33, 147; and exile,

24–5

Uslar, Petr K., 86, 146; and

antiquity, 68; and Cauca-

sus alphabet, 81–2, 88,

133; experience and

ideas of, 80, 149; and

Georgia, 128; impact on

Soviet rule, 156, 158; and

mountain schools, 35–6;

and nationalism, 151–3;

and native language de-

velopment, 80, 82–4

Vazha-Pshavela, 8

Vedeno, 143–4

Vel’iaminov, General A.A.,

82

Vladikavkaz, 27, 153; for-

tress of, 16; seminary of,

43, 54; visit of Tsar

Alexander iii to, 126,

150

Volkonskii, S.G., 145

Voltaire, 146

Voronov, Nikolai I., 67; at

Congress of Oriental-

ists, 78; and exile, 26;

and ssokg, 99

Vorontsov, Prince Mikhail

S., 7, 18, 22, 36; and abo-

lition of viceroyalty, 127;

and Fadeev, 134; and

language transcription,

81; and theatre, 128, 147;

and transformation of

Tbilisi, 63–6

Vorontsov-Dashkov, Vice-

roy I.I.: and customary

law courts, 106–7; and

Il’minskii method, 50;

on Old Belief and settle-

ment, 143

Wrangel, General, 22

Zaidat, 28–9, 114. See also

Shamil

Zakhar’in, I.N., 123–4

Zhigarev, Sergei: on East-

ern question, 7; on Greek

project, 40

Zisserman, Arnol’d, 80, 86,

135 , 146; and memoir

writing, 136; and Tol-

stoy, 136; as young man

and travel writer, 65,

71–2, 77