№ 3 — 2018 — 11
УДК 93/94
Kirsanov E. V.
HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE RELATIONS OF ANCIENT RUSSIA WITH THE COUNTRIES OF THE CAUCASUS, TRANSCAUCASIA AND THE CASPIAN SEA REGIONS, ACCORDING TO EASTERN SOURCES
The article analyzed the works of historians dedicated to the study of the relations of Ancient Russia with the States of the Caucasus and the Caspian sea regions on the basis of descriptions of individual episodes of these relationships of the Eastern authors. The analysis revealed the following trends in the evolution of historians’ views. Historians of the late XIX – early XX century thought all Caucasian and Caspian campaigns of the Ancient Russia purely predatory, and attributed their organization, as a rule, not to the leadership of the old Russian state, and some voluntary groups – brodniks or their predecessors, some acting on its behalf and Varangian-Russian warriors, etc. Historians of the Soviet period come to conclusions about the persecution of Ancient Rus in the region economic-political goals, namely task a foothold in the region, to create a outpost, to make room for and protect trade routes. At the same time, a number of researchers, starting from about the fifties of the XX century, attributed to Ancient Russia actions in the interests of Byzantium or Khazaria. Finally, historians of the late twentieth century and early twenty – first century conclude that Ancient Russia, taking the far-sighted and subtle political game in the region, skillfully pushing different players, solely for their political interests, so that over the entire investigated in the present work period, namely, from IX to XIII centuries, in the region of influential and successful. The majority of the campaigns of the Caspian has liberation, sent to the aid of allies or restore order.
Keywords: Ancient Russia, South Caspian, Berdaa, al-arsiya, Derbent, Georgia, Queen Tamar, Caspian campaigns, trade routes, and the Khazars.
