UDK 94(470.67):351.853:726.8

EDN AXWEUY

 

“This is the stone General and Field Marshal Prince Baryatinsky sat on...”: (Memory of the Caucasian War in Dagestan in the Late Imperial period)

 

Manyshev S. B.

 

Abstract

The Caucasian War has become one of the main subjects in the history of the peoples of the region. Its completion led to the final establishment of Russian power in the Caucasus. Marking their presence here, imperial administrators used practices typical of other empires, related to the installation of monuments dedicated to the victories of Russian weapons. The article deals with the memorialization of the events of the Caucasian War in Dagestan in the second half of the XIX — the early XX century. Special attention is paid to the so-called Baryatinsky gazebo. The main event of the Caucasian War in the North-Eastern Caucasus was the capture of Imam Shamil on Mount Ghunib. It was here, above the stone where Prince A. I. Baryatinsky accepted the surrender of the imam, that a special shed was built. Based on archival materials from the funds of Russian and foreign archives, introduced into scientific circulation for the first time, on literature data the history of the construction of this structure, as well as historical facts of its destruction and restoration at the end of the XIX century are considered. The diverse illustrative material (pre-revolutionary photographs, postcards, paintings by artists) made it possible to follow and better imagine the various constructive changes that had been made to the Baryatinsky gazebo for half a century.

 

Keywords: Caucasian War, Dagestan, Imam Shamil, Prince A. I. Baryatinsky, history, monuments, memorialization

 

For citation: Manyshev SB. “This is the stone General and Field Marshal Prince Baryatinsky sat on...”: (Memory of the Caucasian War in Dagestan in the Late Imperial period). Center and Periphery. 2023;18(1):45—51. EDN AXWEUY

 

 

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Information about the author:

Sergey B. Manyshev, Senior Researcher of Sector for the Caucasus of the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (23 Profsoyuznaya Str., Moscow 117997, Russia); Senior Researcher of Center for the Study of Central Asia, the Caucasus and the Ural-Volga Region of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (12 Rozhdestvenka Str., Moscow 107031, Russia), Candidate of Historical Sciences, ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5276-7743, Researcher ID: U-6728-2019, Scopus ID: 0000-0002-5276-7743, msergey1990@gmail.com

 

Conflict of interests: the author declares no conflict of interests.

 

The author has read and approver the final version of the manuscript.

 

The article was submitted 01.09.2022; approved after reviewing 30.09.2022; accepted for publication 06.10.2022.