History, Archaeology, Ethnography
In 1802 on the anniversary of conquest of Georgia by Russia in St. Petersburg anonymous had published the work of E. Bolkhovitinov “Historical picture of Georgia”. There is an opinion that this work was the order of imperial court. The article presents the arguments of negation of above mentioned version.
1. The ordering work should be representated a conjuncture interests of customer.
2. In 1800 Jesuit general Gruber offered to Emperor Paul the project of subordination of Orthodoxal church under the Roman church. The cheking up of this project was charged to E. Bolkhovitinov. After his reasons the Emperor refused of this idea. E. Bolkhovitinov with his position was found out against the politic of Tsarizm. Thus, the imperial court couldn’t gave him another important work.
The idea of creation of work about Georgia was served itself to the politic of Tsarizm. However, the analysis of documental material proved that during the work on the last version of book E. Bolkhovitinov had no contact with the representatives of imperial court. The results of this are that, on one hand, the “Historical picture of Georgia” does not present the conjuncture ideology of that period.
Center for Caucasian Studies
Georgian National Parliamentary Library