“Head of the Chechen People”: Petr Bellik in the History of the Incorporation of the Highlanders to the Russian Office in the North Caucasus

Abstract

The article is devoted to the features of the incorporation of horses in the Russian government system in Chechnya in the early 1850s — early 1860s. The author analyzes the experience of Petr Bellik on the management of Chechens, notes the controversial nature of the integration of the Highlanders to the Russian ethnocultural space, reveals the positive and negative aspects of the activities of the Tsarist administration in Chechnya. The process of incorporation in many ways contributed to the personal qualities of the head of the Chechen people who managed to create a positive way of power, the conditions for the adaptation of the Highlanders to civilian management and self-government, peasant and land reforms, social equality and peaceful classes.