Social Changes Caused by Impact of Power in the 19th Century Caucasus (according to Grigol Orbeliani’s Epistolary Legacy)
Social Changes Caused by Impact of Power in the 19th Century Caucasus (according to Grigol Orbeliani’s Epistolary Legacy)

Summary/Abstract: The main goal of the presented work is revealing the nature of the social changes, taking place in the 19th century Caucasus under the press of Tsarist Russia’s power. The research is based on the example of two Caucasian sides – the South (Georgia) and the North Caucasus – according to the epistolary legacy of the Georgian poet and public figure, general of the Russian army – Grigol Orbeliani. He lived and worked in a difficult time of Georgian history – in the 19th century, at the dawn of which, by the manifest of Russian Emperor, the Georgian statehood was abolished, the country lost national independence, Tsarist Russia subverted the Royal family’s supremacy.Grigol Orbeliani’s epistolary legacy provides additional evidence about the change of the forms of arrangement of social institutions, organization of the society, common customs, traditions and individual behavior affected by the invader’s power. Besides, the personal letters contain the invaluable information about what happened in an already annexed country (the case of Georgia) and in the land, the annexation process of which has been carried out just in the author’s time (the case of the North Caucasus), which kind of imperial methods were used by Tsarist Russia and how they effected the social life.

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