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The regiments that fought for decades in the Caucasus with the Turks, Persians and mountaineers, operating in the specific conditions of this region, formed a special community that had a number of corporate features (traditions, combat techniques, ideas about the norms of military law, their own list of heroes and "places of memory"). These signs of the corporation appeared in the regimental stories, which became a prominent phenomenon in the military subculture of the last third of the XIX – early XX centuries.
Since the beginning of the XIX century, the newly formed Separate Caucasian Corps, which became the "unofficial" Caucasian Guard, successfully defended the interests of the Russian Empire on the southern borders of the country. The natural-climatic and socio-cultural factors, the tactics of warfare, the heterogeneity of the personnel of the regiments, allowed us to form special traditions and our own pantheon of heroes of the Caucasian Army. But the Eurocentric nature of the imperial policy did not allow us to sufficiently assess the merits of the Caucasian regiments. Breaking the established prejudices, the regimental chroniclers tried to convey to their colleagues and society the undeservedly forgotten feat of arms of the soldiers of the Caucasian Corps.
Since the last third of the XIX century, active work has been carried out on the publication of regimental histories of the Caucasian Army. Regimental legends were supplemented with stories about the heroic exploits of fellow soldiers, arguments about the actions of generals and the local population, the betrayal of individual recruits from among the exiled Poles, claims to a special connection with famous generals and monarchical persons. The desire to glorify his unit remained unchanged, singling it out from the general mass of the Caucasian regiments.
Keywords:The Russian Army. The Caucasian Corps. The conquest of the Caucasus. Regimental stories. Corporate history. Heroes of the Caucasian war.
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