The 19th century Chechen historian and ethnographer Umalat Laudaev

The 19th century Chechen historian and ethnographer Umalat Laudaev, born in 1830, left an interesting note about the Circassians of Kabarda. "There was one people who really carried a military culture. These were the Kabardians. The trendsetters in the Caucasus, they were the first to introduce clear social differentiation in the North Caucasus: princes, nobles, peasants, slaves. A militarized system. And all these dances, gazyrs, battle tactics - all from the Kabardians. But the Kabardians themselves actually lost, having lost the vast territory under their control, the entire Eastern Caucasus. They could only give the entire Caucasus a fashion, a warlike style of behavior ... A caste of cruel warriors, local samurai, slave owners. But caste nobles will never be able to decide who is in charge, do not obey anyone, and as a

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The 19th century Chechen historian and ethnographer Umalat Laudaev, born in 1830, left an interesting note about the Circassians of Kabarda.

"There was one people who really carried a military culture. These were the Kabardians. The trendsetters in the Caucasus, they were the first to introduce clear social differentiation in the North Caucasus: princes, nobles, peasants, slaves. A militarized system.

And all these dances, gazyrs, battle tactics - all from the Kabardians. But the Kabardians themselves actually lost, having lost the vast territory under their control, the entire Eastern Caucasus.

They could only give the entire Caucasus a fashion, a warlike style of behavior ... A caste of cruel warriors, local samurai, slave owners. But caste nobles will never be able to decide who is in charge, do not obey anyone, and as a result, they perish in civil strife.

So it is precisely the culture of the Kabardian Warks that is the true source of that image of the highlander, which appeared in the 19th century in Russian classical literature. "

G. Sadulayev, analyzing the work of Laudaev, summarizes: "The territorial acquisitions of the Kabardians, who roamed" from sea to sea ", were unstable, like breakers in the Terek sandstones. They seized many lands and established their protectorate over many societies, including the Chechens and Ingush, but gradually they were ousted, as a result of which they lost power, control and were forced to run further until they remained in a very modest territory.

Nevertheless, three whole centuries in the life of the North Caucasus passed under the sign of Kabarda. Kabardians became trendsetters in all respects: in clothing, martial arts, horse breeding and equestrianism, in dancing, music, cooking, and in building social and political life. The image of the inhabitant of the North Caucasus, which now comes to our mind and rises before our eyes, is almost entirely and completely formed by the Kabardians and under the influence of the Kabardians: a Circassian coat, a hood, a hat, a gazyri, a dagger, a saber; methods of waging war in small groups, tactics of plastuns; songs, dances, mountain poetics, the cult and image of the "mountain eagle", declarations of freedom, independence, nobility, etc. - all these are Kabardians.

Now it is customary, bringing facts in tribute to political correctness, to say that "the peoples of the North Caucasus formed their common culture together." Together, of course, no one argues. In Paris and St. Petersburg, together they formed the fashion for women's ball gowns. However, in Petersburg they copied the Parisian style, and not vice versa.

Kabarda was "Paris" for the North Caucasus, and everything was learned from her. Including the Vainakhs during this period adopted from the Kabardians a significant part of their 'own' national exoticism. "

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