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

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Bariatinskii, Viceroy A.I.,
85, 106; and Caucasus
War, 21–3; 1859 decree
on the blood feud of, 98;
and mountaineer mili-
tary service, 35; and R.A.
Fadeev, 134; and settle-
ment, 137; and Shamil,
111, 115, 120; and Society
for the Restoration of
Orthodoxy, 43–4
Bartolomei, General I.A.,
68; and language tran-
scription, 83, 84; and
Society for the Restora-
tion of Orthodoxy, 52
Bashkirs, 77, 110; military
service of, 35, 127
Batumi, 10, 71
Begichev, Aleksandr A., 41
Belinskii, Vissarion G.: and
ethnography, 71; and
historical peoples, 131;
and narodnost’, 59
Bell, James, 14
Beria, Lavrenti: and depor-
tations, 158
Berzhe, Adol’f P., 83, 135,
146, 158; and Archaeolog-
ical Commission, 67, 70;
on Chechens, 69, 79; at
Congress of Orientalists,
78; and exile, 26; and
Geographic Society, 66;
and language transcrip-
tion, 81; youthful travels,



  1. See also archaeology;
    ethnography; Imperial
    Russian Geographic
    Society; Kavkaz (news-
    paper)
    Beslenei, 5, 24
    Bestuzhev-Marlinskii,
    Aleksandr, 61, 65, 71
    Bibikov, N.P., 117
    blood feud: Bariatinskii’s
    1859 decree against, 98;
    and crime, 100, 104; and
    customary law, 94, 98; in
    work of Berzhe, 69
    Burton, Richard, 62
    Bzhedug, 4, 82


cartography: and Peter the
Great, 63; and vision of
empire, 75
Catherine the Great: and
conquest of Crimea, 13,
23, 37; and ecclesiastical
administration, 16, 36;
education policy of, 35;
and enlightenment, 63;
Fundamental Law on
provincial town life, 64;
Greek project of, 40; and
nobility, 18; 1775 statute
on the provinces, 32; and
study of law, 90; and
Voltaire, 146
Caucasus alphabet, 81–2,


  1. See also Uslar,
    PetrK.
    Caucasus Department. See
    Imperial Russian
    Geographic Society
    Caucasus Historical
    Archaeological Insti-
    tute, 153
    Caucasus Mountain
    Administration, 52, 66, 99
    Caucasus Museum, 153;
    and antiquity, 68; and
    collecting, 77–8; found-
    ing of, 66. See also Radde,
    Gustav
    Caucasus Society of Agri-
    culture, 66
    Caucasus War, 86, 92, 99,
    105, 128; administrative
    frustration with, 63–5;
    continuation after 1859
    of, 27–32; and imperial
    expansion, 12–19;
    and mountaineer exile,
    22–7, 137, 146, 158; and
    Muslim resistance, 19–
    20; and Russification,
    126; in scholarship, 7,
    164; and Shamil, 20–2,
    28–9, 110, 119; and Tol-
    stoy, 135–6
    Chavchavadze, Aleksandr,
    113–14, 148
    Chavchavadze, Gersevan,
    113


Chavchavadze, Ilia: and
Georgian originality, 8,
60; and Iveria, 129
Chavchavadze, Nino, 112,
148
Chechens, 4, 53, 61, 132,
148 ; borders of, 85–6;
and Caucasus alphabet,
82; at Congress of
Orientalists, 78; and cus-
tomary law, 92; and eth-
nography, 74–5, 79; exile
of, 24, 27; first newspa-
per, 156; maps of, 76;
and military service, 35;
and native language in-
struction, 52, 84; and
Orthodox settlers, 143–4;
religious identity of, 48;
and Shamil, 111–12, 118;
and soslovie, 19; Soviet
deportations of, 37, 158;
in work of Berzhe, 69;
and Zisserman, 65, 71
Cherniaev, General M.G.,
73; and Aksakov, 130;
and Raevskii, 145
Chernyshev, Minister of
War Aleksandr I.: and
Caucasus War, 20; and
North Africa, 20; and
Raevskii, 3, 73, 145
Chirkeev, Aideemir, 82
Chkeidze, G.D., 129
Chonkadze, Daniel, 84. See
also Uslar, PetrK.
Cossacks, 53, 136; conquest
of Siberia and, 12, 13;
and exile of mountain-
eers, 23, 25; imperial ser-
vice of Don, 18; and
mountain courts, 95; in
Saratov province, 32;
and settlement, 137,
139 –40, 142; in support
of empire, 40, 85–6,
133 –4
customary law, 8, 128, 147,
150 ; and crime, 99–105;
and ethnicity, 95–9; and
European colonialism,
89–90; and gender,
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