ENLIGHTENERS OF THE NORTH CAUCASUS ON THE INTERACTION OF MODERNIZING STATE-LEGAL REFORMS AND ETHNIC STATE-LEGAL CULTURES OF THE MOUNTAIN PEOPLES IN THE XIX CENTURY

The article examines the approaches of some educators of the North Caucasus to the problems of interaction between the state-legal reforms of the Russian Empire carried out in the 19th century and the ethnic state-legal cultures of the mountain peoples. The author emphasizes that the North Caucasian enlighteners proceeded from the compatibility, harmonization of European forms of state-legal life and legal consciousness with the preservation of the national specifics of the mountain state-legal cultures. According to the enlighteners, the need to study the fundamental spiritual foundations of national and cultural existence was dictated not only by the purely scientific tasks of in-depth ethno-graphic study of the Caucasian peoples, but also by the tasks of state management practice in the region.