Nikolay Dubrovin about the Kingdom of Imereti

Abstract

Nikolai Dubrovin (1837-1904) studied Russian military history for a long time based on archival documents. After graduating from artillery school, he served in the Russian army as an officer. He started from the Artillery brigade and then moved to the headquarters of the St. Petersburg District Artillery Division. In 1869 he was sent to the Army General Staff for military-historical researches. 

In 1886 General-Major N. Dubrovin was elected a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. And from 1893, he was its indispensable secretary until his death. N. Dubrovin has received numerous state awards.

He has studied and published the history of the wars waged by the Russian Empire in the XVIII-XIX centuries. Naturally, N. Dubrovin was a staunch supporter of Russian imperial policy and ideology in general. However, since the author uses very significant archival materials (which modern Georgian scholars currently have little access to), N. Dubrovin’s works still do not lose relevance today.

We are especially interested in N. Dubrovin's work _ History of the Wars and Russian Ownership in the Caucasus (История войны и владычества русских на Кавказе), published in six volumes in St. Petersburg in 1871-1888.

This time we would like to introduce the Georgian translation of a part of N. Dubrovin’s aforementioned work to the readers of "Georgian Source-Studies". This section is the fourth chapter of Volume 2, published by the author in 1886. There is some important information about the Imereti Kingdom in the 80s of the XVIII century.