20882 sssa, f. 5, op. 1, 1868, d. 770, Delo “Zapiska o zaselenii Kavkaza,” l. 3.
83 rgia, f. 1276, op. 21, 1895–97, d. 45, Memorandum of the Ministry of
Agriculture, ll. 1–9.
84 rgia, f. 1263, op. 2, 1903, d. 5616, ll. 157, 193.
85 Treadgold, The Great Siberian Migration, 74; Shatskii, “Russkaia koloni-
zatsiia,” 40–1.
86 Olcott, The Kazakhs, 87–8; Treadgold, “Russian Expansion in the Light of
Turner’s Study of the American Frontier,” 150.
87 rgia, f. 1276, op. 21, 1895–97, d. 45, l. 10.
88 rgia, f. 1263, op. 2, 1903, d. 5616, Memorandum, l. 197.
89 S.V. Farforovskii, “Statistichesko-geograficheskoe opisanie g. Maikopa i
Maikopskago otdela,” Sbornik Materialov dlia opisanie mestnostei i plemen
Kavkaza, no. 41 (1910):37.
90 rgia, f. 560, op. 41, 1883, d. 143, Letter of V. Butyrkin, l. 4.
91 rgia, f. 1276, op. 17, 1911, d. 165, Report of Chernomorsk governor, l. 92.
92 rgia, f. 1276, op. 21, 1895–97, d. 45, Notes of the Ministry of Agriculture,
l. 1.
93 rgia, f. 1263, op. 2, 1903, d. 5616, Memorandum, Golitsyn, l. 191.
94 rgia, f. 1276, op. 21, 1895–97, d. 45, Notes of the Ministry of Agriculture,
ll. 9–10. In 1901, settlement authorities were careful to incorporate the
advice of a doctor familiar with malaria to guide the choice of location of
new settlement villages; from rgia, f. 1263, op. 2, 1903, d. 5616, ll. 193–5.
95 rgia, f. 1276, op. 21, 1895–97, d. 45, Notes of the Ministry of Agriculture,
l. 2.
96 Ibid., l. 3.
97 Ibid., l. 4.
98 Otchet nachal’nika Kubanskoi oblasti ... za 1895 god, 15.
99 rgia, Biblioteka, op. 1, 1909, d. 99, Report of commander of Terek oblast
for 1909, General Mikheev, l. 41. By the early twentieth century the posts
of commander of Terek oblast and ataman of the Terek oblast Cossacks
were merged into a single position.
100 Ibid., l. 43.
101 Ibid., l. 44.
102 Ibid.
103 rgia, f. 37, op. 55, 1892–99, d. 69, Delo “O merakh k uporiadocheniiu
razrabotok v kamenalomnakh, ”Report of commander of Terek oblast
for 1890, ll. 46–7.
104 “Izvlechenie iz proekta 1849 g. o Tatarskoi missii,” in Znamenskii, Na
Pamiat’ o Nikolae Ivanoviche Il’minskom, 331–5.
105 rgia, f. 799, op. 25, 1900–15, d. 808, Delo “Ob assignovanii iz
Gosudarstvennago kaznacheistva po finansovoi smety Sv. Sinoda summ
na ustroistve pravoslavnykh tserkvei v pereselencheskikh seleniiakh
Zakavkazskago kraia,” Letter from Golitsyn to mvd, 4 October 1901, l. 9.
Notes to pages 138–42