THE IMAGE OF GENERAL P.S. KOTLYAREVSKY IN IMPERIAL IDEOLOGY AND COMMEMORATIVE ACTIVITIES IN THE CAUCASUS IN THE XIX CENTURY
The article concerns studying of the commemoration activity of Russian military and civil Caucasus authorities in the second half of XIX c. It focuses on the military career of a typical Imperial Caucasus Army representative P.S. Kotlarevsky in the epoch of south and south-Easten borderlands of the Empire acquisition. The author come into consideration that although all Russian Empire activities on its frontier, Kotlarevsky was caught up in looked rather controversial, his image gave good opportunity for the ideological speculations. In the shade of ideology, the actual lot of heavy wounded General meant less than stunning “back-stories” of his activities created by the imperial propaganda. Being churning out by history narrators, monuments creators and even Russian poets, they influenced much on all strata of Russian militaries in and out of the Caucasus region. The Author infers that the all the approaches to Kotlarevsky’s image: first as an ideal military leader, than as ‘true Christian’ were focused on propping up the political positions of the authorities, inventing the excuse for highhanded military actions in the region whilst the Caucasus War epoch.