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N.M. Karamzin on the First Contacts of the People of Rus’ and the North Caucasus
The article discloses historical views on the people of the North Caucasus, developed in the Russian historical thought at the beginning of the 19th century, which received reflection in historiographical classics “History of the Russian State” by N.M. Karamzin.
historiography, cultural tradition, Rus’, the North Caucasus, the historical past, knowledge process, retrospection, types of sources, level of their criticism, the general and special in the history of the people