Recent years have witnessed growing interest, both in
Russia and abroad, in the history and culture of the states
which have taken shape on the territory of the former
Soviet Union in Central Asia and the Caucasus. The serious
difficulties — primarily in the area of relations between nationalities — which face this region underscore the special
need for all manner of cross-cultural research on the mutual
influence of Russian and Eastern cultures: “colonizers” and
“colonized”. The major source for research on this mutual
influence consists of various texts from the period when
the Russian Empire colonized its southern regions. The
nineteenth century, rich in the traditional types of texts
found in state and private archives in Russia and the former
Eastern principalities, provides us with a vast base of source
material unknown for earlier periods. These include, first
and foremost, materials from Russian periodicals on Central
Asia and the Caucasus. Such texts have not yet
received systematic study, yet they contain a wealth of
material on mutual cultural influence in these regions...
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