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Kondusov Vladimir Sergeyevich
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Institute of International Law, Economics, Humanities and Management named after K. Rossinsky
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Articles count: 2
The article is devoted to military and administrative
activity of one of imperial deputies – Evgeny
Aleksandrovich Golovin in the Caucasus in 1838-1842.
The general spent more than three months studying data
on the area he did not know in the archives of SaintPetersburg.
E. A. Golovin paid special attention to road
and fortification construction. He aimed at making them
“centres of Russian nationhood by establishing schools
and markets”. On December 15, 1838 E. A. Golovin
submitted a report to A. I. Chernyshov, the military
minister, where he described the nearest political tasks of
the Russian government. In Golovin’s opinion, the main
military actions in Dagestan were supposed to be seizure
of Chirkat, construction of fortifications therein and
devastation of Akhulgo, residence of Shamil.
However, E. A. Golovin turned out to be bound with
instructions written in Petersburg more than his
predecessors. Programmes for military actions in the
Caucasus region specifying even troop units to participate
in expeditions down to the last detail were drawn on an
annually basis. By the end of his term in the position of
the Commander-in-Chief of the Independent Caucasian
Corps Golovin started supporting the siege system by
combining it, the same way as A. P. Ermolov, with
periodic temporary offensive operations. After the
Evgenievskoe Fortification (named so to honour Golovin
by Royal Decree) had been constructed at the Sulak River,
Evgeniy Aleksandrovich was dismissed in October 1842.
The author concludes that in process of recognition of the
world of mountaineers the commander-in-chief showed
aspiration to searches of other, less dramatic solutions of
the Caucasian question, opened for the successors of
prospect of the movement of Russia and the people of
Chechnya, Dagestan and Western Caucasus towards each
other
The article is devoted to the military and
administrative activities in the Caucasus in 1838–1842
y. one of the Royal Governors-Evgeny Aleksandrovich
Golovin. The author concludes that as a Russian
Patriot and aiming initially to make the Caucasus the
Russian spirit and legal institutions, Golovin began
gradually local features, and at the end of his
Administration Region tried to combine central
traditions with peripheral. His transformations were
appraised only after Evgeniy Aleksandrovich had left
Transcaucasia. For instance, in Tiflis they started
building more European-style constructions on
wastelands, erected causeways, pavements and pools
with clean mountain water. With its extraordinary
combination of the East and the West Tiflis turned into
one of the most interesting and largest cities of Russia.
As a truly Russian nobleman, General Golovin liked
living luxuriously, openly and hospitably. The best
representatives of the local society were welcomed in
his house in a warm-hearted and friendly manner,
which caused an unconscious sensation of gratitude
and left a favourable impression. Preliminary analysis
of activity of E.A. Golovin in Transcaucasia gives no
grounds for assessments which are extremely negative
or idealise the Chief Executive. Yet E.A. Golovin
managed to be remembered as a reformer and
facilitator of Transcaucasia whose numerous initiatives
were developed by his successors: M. S. Vorontsov,
A. I. Baryatinskiy, Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevich
and others