The Military Archaeology Foundation in the Context of Russian Orientalism in XIX Century

The paper concerns with the issues of the Military officers’ running of some archaeological excavations in the newly acquired territories of the Caucasus. They were in search of artefacts from the encounter in order to encourage the public anxiety to the Russian authorities’ affairs in setting up and further extension of the colonial rule in the region.
Thus, the anxiety in Antic relics legitimised the Caucasus affairs together with the presence of Russian force. It set the task of interpretation of the Caucasus people early History matched the revealed relics.
The paper is based on vague primary sources kept in the vaults of Russian National Historical Museum, Russian National Library and Russian State Military-Historical Archive that were off previous researchers concern together with vague secondary sources gained from the publications of foreign authors performed in English.
We studied attempts of excavations of ancient Greeks and Romans relics that gave Russian ideologists the opportunity to set the idea of correlation of the Russian Imperial project in the Caucasus with the Byzantium and Roman predecessors. Clarifying some old Persian, Georgian and Armenian scripts in order to prove the priority of ancient culture to the modern cultural decline of the Caucasus people that matched the Orientalist ideological concepts just perfectly.