THE NORTHEAST CAUCASUS IN POLICY OF RUSSIA, IRAN AND TURKEY (1804–1813)
The subject of study is the policy of Russia, Iran and Turkey to the Northeast Caucasus in 1804–1813. To prepare the paper is to study the historical events in the Northeast Caucasus in the early XIX century in the context of Russian, Iranian and Turkish politics. The paper examines the role and place of Chechnya and Dagestan in the international relations of the Russian Empire, Shah’s Iran, Sultan’s Turkey in 1804–1813. Theoretical and methodological base of the study includes the collection of scientific and special-historical methods. Presentation system, synthesis and analysis of materials included a multifactorial approach to the treatment of a variety of theoretical and methodological schemes. In this article are analyzed ethnopolitical, socio-economic, religious factors that influenced the course of historical events, thus representing the peoples of the North-East Caucasus, not as an object but as a subject of historical events and processes 1804–1813. The author points to the historically progressive role joining the peoples of North-Eastern Caucasus to Russia, but stresses the dual meaning for the people of the North-East Caucasus Gulistan Peace Treaty signed in 1813 between Russia and Iran.