Incorporation of Caucasian Territories to the Russian Empire: The Connecting Problems
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The annexation of the Caucasian lands (which had different levels of development of state institutions) to the Russian Empire is of considerable scientific and practical interest. Despite the large number of works on this topic, we do not have at our disposal generalizing studies created within the framework of the state-legal approach. A similar generalizing work describing the formation of the Russian imperial statehood was created by the outstanding historian and lawyer B.E. Nolde, but, unfortunately, it was not completed until 1864, when the annexation of the Caucasus was completed and this work was devoid of extremely important "chapters" or aspects (such as the incorporation of the Circassian lands after 1829; the incorporation of the Abkhazian principality after 1810; incorporation of the Imeretian kingdom after 1804, etc.). The need and legitimacy of a comprehensive analysis of the incorporation of the Caucasian territories in the chronological framework from 1774 (the initial phase of the annexation of Kabarda) to 1864 (elimination of autonomy of the Abkhazian principality) is seen in the following: 1) all the territories of the Caucasus and the Northern Black Sea region were in the formation zone of the Russian Empire on the basis of the territorial, unitary principle, which became decisive in the policy of the tsarist cabinet since 1764 (the annihilation of the institution of hetmanship in Little Russia); 2) all the Caucasian and northern Black Sea territories were perceived by the Russian establishment as a kind of "barbaric" periphery, inhabited by peoples with such a critically low level of development of state institutions that it is impossible to maintain positive legal practices with them; 3) in relation to all social groups of the incorporated territories, an essentially unified policy of co-optation and ideological assimilation was successfully implemented; 4) the whole mass of at first glance different legal procedures and practices accompanying the incorporation processes forms a fairly integral complex of historical and legal problems, expressed in identical legal forms and political and legal terms.

Shaov I.K., (2021), INCORPORATION OF CAUCASIAN TERRITORIES TO THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE: THE CONNECTING PROBLEMS. Gaps in Russian Legislation, 6 => 45-53.

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