ENLIGHTENERS OF THE NORTH CAUCASUS ON THE INTERACTION OF MODERNIZING STATE-LEGAL REFORMS AND ETHNIC STATE-LEGAL CULTURES OF THE MOUNTAIN PEOPLES IN THE XIX CENTURY

Abstract

The article examines the approaches of some educators of the North Caucasus to the problems of interaction between the state-legal reforms of the Russian Empire carried out in the 19th century and the ethnic state-legal cultures of the mountain peoples. The author emphasizes that the North Caucasian enlighteners proceeded from the compatibility, harmonization of European forms of state-legal life and legal consciousness with the preservation of the national specifics of the mountain state-legal cultures. According to the enlighteners, the need to study the fundamental spiritual foundations of national and cultural existence was dictated not only by the purely scientific tasks of in-depth ethno-graphic study of the Caucasian peoples, but also by the tasks of state management practice in the region.