Amiran Urushadze

European University at Saint Petersburg

Book Review: Lubov Ulyanova. Politicheskaja policija i liberal’noe dvizhenie v Rossijskoj imperii: vlast’ igry, igra vlast’ju. 1880–1905 [The Political Police and the Liberal Movement in the Russian Empire: The Power of Game, the Game of Power, 1880–1905] (Saint Petersburg: Aletheia, 2021) (in Russian).

The article analyzes governmental debates on the functions, rights and privileges of the Armenian Catholicoi in the context of inter-institutional controversies. The author attempts to identify and analyze the most influential programmes for solving the “Echmiadzin issue” and their origins presenting at the same time certain aspects of political in...

This review examines a monograph by Philipp Ammon that considers the history of the entry and integration of the territories of historical Georgia into the space of the Russian Empire. In his book, the German historian focuses on finding the roots and forerunners of modern Russian – Georgian political conflicts. The author consistently describes th...

The article examines the history of transfers (displacements) of the population during the years of the Caucasian War. Transfers are analyzed in the context of the Russian Empire's policy of establishing military and political control in the region. The article is based on the materials of several federal and regional archives, as well as published...

В статье рассматриваются особенности жизни и служебной деятельности горцев Кавказа на российской службе в годы Кавказской войны (1801–1864 гг.). При этом в статье исследуются служебные траектории не только крупных исторических личностей, но и судьбы менее известных фигур. Именно на их примере можно увидеть закрепляемые империей функциональные роли,...

This article analyses the peculiarities of the military service of Don Cossacks in the Caucasus during the Caucasian War (1801–1864). The key problem is to determine the reasons for the decline in the combat effectiveness of Cossack regiments and the spread of negative assessments of their service. The author refers both to published historical evi...

1950-х годов тема Кавказской войны оказывается на обочине как научного изучения, так и общест-венного внимания. Историческое содержание самого длительного конфликта в российской истории явно противоречило партийно-идеологическим задачам обеспечения межнационального мира и согласия. Традиция забвения Кавказской войны осталась актуальной и в политике...

This article deals with a key period in the development of Russian-Georgian political relations stretching from the conclusion of the Treaty of Georgievsk (July 24, 1783) to the manifesto on the annexation of Georgia to Russia (September 12, 1801). Irakli II, the King of Kartli-Kakheti (Eastern Georgia), rejected the oppressive political tutelage o...

This article considers the relations between the Russian Empire and its national peripheries. The authors focus on the deformation of imperial principles of the organisation of power under the influence of the periphery instead of the traditional analysis of imperial methods of incorporating it. The work is based on documents from federal archives...

The article is devoted to the protest movement in the North Caucasus in second half of XIX - the beginning of XX centuries. The article is the first of planned by authors cycle of articles about the protest movement in the North Caucasus during the second half of the XIX century to early XXI century. The article based on analysis of published and a...

The study is based both on previously published and unpublished archival documents. The article refers to a variety of materials from federal, regional and college archives. The article is devoted to problems of administration and education development on the southern outskirts of the Russian Empire in the late 19th - early 20th centuries. That was...

The article considers M.S. Vorontsov's politics within the Caucasus and its role in the victory over Shamil's imamate.