OSSETIAN PEASANTS OF SOUTH OSSETIA AND THEIR POLITICAL AND LEGAL SITUATION IN THE 18th-19th CENTURIES

The article deals with a little-studied page of the history of South Ossetia in the 18th-19th centuries. – the complex and contradictory relations of the Georgian princes Machabelov, Eristov with the working peasantry of South Ossetia, other Georgian territories where Ossetians densely lived. During this period, there was a clear distinction between the categories of peasants who carried various duties in favor of princes and other landowners. The peasants of South Ossetia were divided depending on their origin and socio-economic status into “mkvidri”, “msakhuri”, “naskidi”, “natskalobevi”, “bogano”, “khizans”, serfs, etc.