{"title":"“One of the most interesting peoples of the Caucasus...” lectures by Anatoliy Genko of Abkhazians ethnography","authors":"Y. Anchabadze","doi":"10.22455/arl-2021-1-107-140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/arl-2021-1-107-140","url":null,"abstract":"The Author for the first time introduces into scientific circulation lectures about Abkhazia by the outstanding scientist, linguist, ethnologist, and kavkazologist A. N. Genko, read by him in the autumn of 1940 to students of the ethnographic Department of the Geographical faculty of Leningrad University. The publication of this unique material is preceded by a preamble that includes the history of the creation of authorized typewriting and its preservation by Genko’s family in the difficult situation of his arrest and death in custody. Text preparation and scientific commentary complement the publication of this valuable source. As the only professional ethnographer who worked in Abkhazia in the late 1920s–1930s, Genko collected information that is invaluable today as unique evidence of the era of actively transformed ethnographic reality, which appears in the history of Abkhazia in the first decades of Soviet power. The scientist had the opportunity to observe the living existence of patriarchal “remnants,” which invariably posed the problem of their functionality in a fairly successfully modernizing Abkhaz society. The text of Genko’s lectures reflects the heuristic interests of ethnographic knowledge of the modern era; it is based on the author’s direct and deep acquaintance with the Abkhaz ethnocultural society, on a voluminous generalization of the material at his disposal, a thorough knowledge of the sources and historiography of the problem. This makes it possible to consider Genko’s lectures as an example of the Russian scientific narrative about Abkhazia in the middle of the last century.","PeriodicalId":286596,"journal":{"name":"Abkhazia in Russian Literature of the 19th — 20th Centuries: in 3 vols. Vol. 1","volume":"3 12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125229164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"«Just as if you pay a visit to paradise and forget about everything…» Essay by E. Dyakonova about Abkhazia","authors":"M. S. Krutova","doi":"10.22455/arl-2021-1-321-338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/arl-2021-1-321-338","url":null,"abstract":"The Department of Manuscripts of the RSL contains a little-known essay “On Black Sea Coast” by Yelizaveta D’yakonova, included in the “Diary of a Russian Woman”. The young female writer presents the information she knows about the history of Abkhazia and the New Athos Monastery named after Simon the Canaanean, she shares her impressions of her stay in these places. The facts from the history of Abkhazia cited in the essay may have been gleaned by her from various publications with which she could get acquainted while living in Abkhazia or already upon her arrival in St. Petersburg. This work is only a part of her notes, written in Abkhazia, as there are still more extensive rough notes, which she probably also wanted to include in her “Diary...”.","PeriodicalId":286596,"journal":{"name":"Abkhazia in Russian Literature of the 19th — 20th Centuries: in 3 vols. Vol. 1","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114209427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hieromonk Arseniy (Worldly Aleksandr Minin) — Founder of the New Athos Monastery Named After Simon the Canaanean","authors":"M. Shcherbakova","doi":"10.22455/arl-2021-1-234-272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/arl-2021-1-234-272","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents an outline of the life of Hieromonk Arseniy (worldly Aleksandr Minin) — founder and first builder of the New Athos Monastery named after Simon the Canaanean. According to the preserved sources, his path is traced, which preceded the trip to Athos. Upon arrival at the Holy Mountain of Athos, Aleksandr Minin carried out various assignments of the elders in the monastery. The return to Russia was associated with a new taking of God’s orders by collecting donations for Panteleimon Russian Monastery on Athos. Vigorous activity about Arseny consisted in the arrangement of a permanent monastery courtyard in Moscow, a chapel, where the Athonite shrines brought by him were preserved. Fr. Arseny stood at the origins of the publishing activity of the Athos Saint Panteleimon Monastery, founded in 1878 in Moscow its periodical “The Soul-Saving Reflections” (“The Soul-Saving Interlocutor”). He himself wrote a lot, mainly spiritual and moral instructions, instructive letters. In the mid- 1870s Fr. Arseniy’s taking of God’s orders was supplemented with one more, more difficult one — the response to the oppression of the Russian monks on the Holy Mountain, he was instructed to find a place on the Black Sea coast where a monastery could be built, a certain prototype of Russik, where its monastic traditions and Rule would be observed. Fr. Arseniy found such a place near Sukhumi, where there was a destroyed church in the name of St. the Apostle Simon the Canaanean. In 1875 the dispensation of the New Athos Monastery named after Simon the Canaanean began. For the history of the monastery, information about its founder is of absolute value.","PeriodicalId":286596,"journal":{"name":"Abkhazia in Russian Literature of the 19th — 20th Centuries: in 3 vols. Vol. 1","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125709549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Andrey Murav’yov’s travel in Abkhazia","authors":"M. Shcherbakova","doi":"10.22455/arl-2021-1-217-233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/arl-2021-1-217-233","url":null,"abstract":"The article is devoted to the little-known travel notes about Abkhazia by Andrey N. Murav’yov, an outstanding Russian spiritual writer, the pioneer of the genre of literary pilgrimage travels, the discoverer of Christian and Orthodox shrines in Russia and abroad for his compatriots and contemporaries. Travel essay “Abkhazia. Pitsunda”, included as a separate chapter in the book “Georgia and Armenia”, was created under the impression of the author’s trip in the spring of 1847 to the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus. It presents genre sketches of the city life of Sukhumi, descriptions of the luxurious southern nature, it gives excursions into the history of the region, and it characterises the features of the economic state. The main part of Andrey Murav’yov’s Black Sea memories concerns Pitsunda. As a deep connoisseur of the history of Christianity, Andrey Murav’yov traced its ancient roots in the land of Abkhazia, where the apostles Simon the Canaanean, Andrew the First- Called, St. John Chrysostom. In detailed descriptions of the ancient churches, the writer recorded their condition; despite the artistic form of the story, they have the value of a reliable historical document that helps to reconstruct many of the losses that occurred under the influence of time.","PeriodicalId":286596,"journal":{"name":"Abkhazia in Russian Literature of the 19th — 20th Centuries: in 3 vols. Vol. 1","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133191537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The 1884–1890 letters of the brethren of New Athos Monastery, named after Simon the Canaanean, to Archimandrite Leonid (worldly Lev Kavelin)","authors":"M. S. Krutova","doi":"10.22455/arl-2021-1-275-294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/arl-2021-1-275-294","url":null,"abstract":"The Department of Manuscripts of the Russian State Library contains letters of Hegumen Ieron (worldly Ivan Nosov-Vasil’yev), Schemamonk Innokentiy (worldly last name — Sibiryakov) and Iosif the monk, the brethren of New Athos Monastery, named after Simon the Canaanean, to Archimandrite Leonid (worldly Lev Kavelin), Rector of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, a prominent scientist, a prominent scholar of the Russian Orthodox Church, one of the most enlightened priests of the 19th century. In 1885, the book “Abkhazia and New Athos Monastery, Named after Simon the Canaanean, in It” by Archimandrite Leonid was a real event. The published letters were written by the brethren of the monastery, people of different cultural levels; but they are all imbued with a sense of gratitude to the author, who wrote a book about their holy monastery, which they love and care about the improvement of. Hegumen Ieron’s letters contain numerous details about the opening of Pitsunda Monastery as a skete of New Athos Monastery, about the restoration of the ancient Pitsunda temple, about its beautification and the forthcoming consecration. Schemamonk Innokentiy’s letters provide detailed information about the history of the Monastery, as well as some cartographic data needed by Archimandrite Leonid for his book. Monk Iosif ’s letter contains details of the economic life of the monastery.","PeriodicalId":286596,"journal":{"name":"Abkhazia in Russian Literature of the 19th — 20th Centuries: in 3 vols. Vol. 1","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125769447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Abkhaz lectures by Anatoliy Genko","authors":"Y. Anchabadze","doi":"10.22455/arl-2021-1-92-106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/arl-2021-1-92-106","url":null,"abstract":"The article provides a brief overview of the main stages of development and increment of scientific knowledge about Abkhazia, describes the most important achievements in the field of collecting, source research and systematization of the material. It is noted that, in General, abkhazov studies have not reached the completeness and abundance of publications that are typical for other regional sections of Russian kavkazov studies. This indicates the relevance of studying the scientific heritage of Anatoly Nestorovich Genko, an outstanding scientist, linguist, ethnologist, and kavkazologist. The main attention is paid to Genko’s lectures delivered in the autumn semester of 1940 to students of the ethnographic Department of the Geographical faculty of Leningrad University. The lecture course on Ethnography of the peoples of the Caucasus consisted of twenty lectures, two of which were devoted to Abkhazia. The article describes the structure of the course, the author’s methodology and techniques. It is noted that, choosing an example from the phenomena of everyday culture, Genko considered it in more detail, in detail, and, as a rule, extrapolating to the entire Caucasus, within the framework of regional specifics as an element of the Caucasian civilizational universe. The problems formulated by Genko related to the study of the history, religion, and Ethnography of Abkhazia were aimed at identifying the most striking features of the region. Lectures abound with rare material related to the manifestations of ancient ethnic traditions, Patriarchal features of Abkhazian life, and the specifics of national culture, which makes them relevant today.","PeriodicalId":286596,"journal":{"name":"Abkhazia in Russian Literature of the 19th — 20th Centuries: in 3 vols. Vol. 1","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126877605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Abkhazia for tourists. Letters, postcards, photo cards","authors":"Esma Z. Khagba","doi":"10.22455/arl-2021-1-381-399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/arl-2021-1-381-399","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents a brief outline of the life of Ye. B. Narbut, a collector of postcards and photo-postcards with views of the sights of Abkhazia — Sukhumi, New Athos, Pitsunda, Gagra, etc. The short texts written from Abkhazia not only convey the special atmosphere of holidays; they contain details that play an important role in the restoration of the general panorama of the life of Abkhazia in the second half of the 20th century.","PeriodicalId":286596,"journal":{"name":"Abkhazia in Russian Literature of the 19th — 20th Centuries: in 3 vols. Vol. 1","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132532739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"«Memories of a Caucasian Officer», the main work of Fjodor Tornau","authors":"Regina L. Avidzba","doi":"10.22455/arl-2021-1-143-160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/arl-2021-1-143-160","url":null,"abstract":"The article provides an overview of Fjodor Tornau in the context of studying the Caucasus in the 19th century. Special attention is paid to the main book of the writer — “Memories of a Caucasian Officer”, created on the basis of the author’s own experience as a scout. The history of the publication of “Memories ...” testifies to the genuine interest of readers in the exciting story of Fjodor Tornau’s stay among the mountaineers in captivity and several escapes from capture. However, the storyline is far from the main advantage of the book, which has become a tabletop for several generations of Caucasian scholars. Fjodor Tornau managed to collect extremely rare material. Russian ethnography, historiography, physical geography and related branches of knowledge were significantly enriched by unique materials compiled on the basis of personal observations by Fjodor Tornau, with numerous details of military operations in the Caucasus; individual observations of the scout writer have no analogues in the science of the Caucasus. Fjodor Tornau’s undoubted literary talent and natural artistic talent manifested itself in his stylistic manner, which attracts the most sophisticated connoisseurs of the word.","PeriodicalId":286596,"journal":{"name":"Abkhazia in Russian Literature of the 19th — 20th Centuries: in 3 vols. Vol. 1","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115096749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Abkhazia under the pen of Fjodor Tornau","authors":"Regina L. Avidzba","doi":"10.22455/arl-2021-1-161-214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/arl-2021-1-161-214","url":null,"abstract":"For the first time, regarding the pages of Fjodor Tornau’s “Memories of a Caucasian Officer” dedicated to Abkhazia, scientific criticism of the text was undertaken, typos and mistakes made in the first edition and repeated in all subsequent ones were revealed. The writer’s artistic talent determined Fjodor Tornau’s contribution to the development of the Caucasian theme, one of the constant in Russian literature of the 19th century. The Abkhazian pages of “Memories...” vividly recreate the national life of the mountaineers, far from European civilisation, in all the fullness of their traditional life; many pages are devoted to the genuine nature of the Caucasus, whose paintings were so attractive to romantics. Meanwhile, the memoirist reveals himself to be a truly military man, a knowledgeable officer, whose view of the world around him is distinguished by sober and clear assessments. In a relaxed and fascinating narrative form, the author reveals to the reader the beauty of the Caucasian nature, and the exploits of his colleagues, and the customs of the highlanders, creating a unique synthesis in which, on the one hand, the mortal dangers of the military life of an officer of the Russian army are indissoluble, and on the other, the tremulous, grateful attitude to this God-given life.","PeriodicalId":286596,"journal":{"name":"Abkhazia in Russian Literature of the 19th — 20th Centuries: in 3 vols. Vol. 1","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126049809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Abkhazia in books published by Russian authors of the 19th century","authors":"Vasiliy Sh. Avidzba","doi":"10.22455/arl-2021-1-13-91","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/arl-2021-1-13-91","url":null,"abstract":"An analytical review of books dedicated to Abkhazia written by the 19th century Russian authors is presented in the article. Information about the history and culture of Abkhazia as well as of other regions of the Caucasus and parts of southern Russia can be found in the publications. The material under review revealed a trend of increasing interest in Abkhazia among Russian authors. If in the first half of the said century, information about Abkhazia had been published only in two books, all other books date back to the second half of the century. Their authors include the military, state officials, publicists, scientists, people of civil professions and religious figures. As a rule, they would write about the history of Abkhazia, the ethnographic and religious condition of the region; they reported on the ethnic composition of the peoples (tribes), the number, borders, monuments of Christian architecture; to a lesser extent, they paid attention to the political structure of the Abkhazian principality. Many of them wrote about the dramatic events of the 1860s and 1870s. Despite the fact that the books included in the review are not scientifically and artistically equivalent, they can serve as a significant source for the study of the history and culture of 19th-century Abkhazia as a whole.","PeriodicalId":286596,"journal":{"name":"Abkhazia in Russian Literature of the 19th — 20th Centuries: in 3 vols. Vol. 1","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132016178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}