“A Diary From the Trip Across Ossetia in 1926” of A. M. Rossova as a Source on Archaeology, Ethnography and Recent History of North Ossetia
The article is a brief summary of the personal diary of A.M. Rossova, written during an expedition to North Ossetia in 1926. The trip was an ethnographic expedition of the Moscow Central Museum of folk studies, organized mainly for the purpose of collecting ethnographic collections. Along the way, archaeological and anthropological research was carried out. The expedition visited the gorges of the Giseldon and the Fiagdon rivers in the central part of the region. Members of the expedition: B. A. Kuftin, later a famous archaeologist, and his wife A. M. Rossova. The summary contains information about the nature and the purposes of the expedition, as well as the author’s notes. The purpose of the publication is to draw the attention of specialists to this document, which contains a significant amount of historical and ethnographic information.