Book review: Alieva, A.I. (2017), “Renounced” pages of the history of Russian Academic Caucasus Studies of the late 19th – early 20 th centuries. A.S. Uvarov’s and P.S. Uvarova’s Caucasian heritage, Gorky Institute of World Literature, RAS, Moscow, Russia

Abstract

The review describes the Alla Aliyeva’s archaeographic work on the accumulation and analysis of documents depicting the creative path of the Uvarov couple in theCaucasus. Attention is focused on the importance of the first reprint of the “Caucasus. Travel diaries of Praskovya Uvarova” for scholars who research the folklore and religious tradition for peoples in the Eastern and Southern Black Sea regions at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. In the text the most curious, in the opinion of the author of the review, quotations are cited and the results of the initial analysis of several stable mythological plots from the countess’s travel records are presented.