Abkhaz History of the 19th – early 20th Centuries in Synchronous Regional Narratives: Topical Problems of Source Study

The article is devoted to a comprehensive description of new approaches to the source study of narrative monuments that characterize the Abkhaz history of the 19th – early 20th centuries. The regional historiographic tradition is viewed as an independent complex of diff erentiated sources that allow to adequately reconstruct the socio-economic, political and cultural development of the imperial outskirts. Synchronous narratives are interpreted in the context of a microhistorical approach, and clichéd text fragments are deconstructed in the framework of comparative source analysis. Particular attention is paid to the structural study of narrative sources, which makes it possible to identify the systemic evolution of the author's assessments and worldviews.