STUDY OF SOCIO-POLITICAL SYSTEM OF KALMYKIA IN DOMESTIC HISTORIOGRAPHY OF the XVII - XIX CENTURIES
The article is devoted to the history of research of socio-political system of the Kalmyk Khanate in the historiography of the XVII-XIX centuries. Works of the Kalmyk researchers of Russian Academy of Sciences, astrakhan officials and local historians are analyzed, the evaluation of nomadic statehood institutions is shown.