ABOUT UNKNOWN CHRONICLE OF THE 19TH C. FROM THE FORZATZ LEAF OF A-439 MANUSCRIPT
Vladimir Kekelia
Senior Scholar at Georgian National Centre of Manuscripts
Abstract
On the forzatz leaf of the manuscript #439 kept at the National Centre of Manuscripts is placed text written supposedly in the first half of the 19th century. The cronicle is not preserved fully. The text contains not only local stories, but also current events of the Russian Empire. It is worth to mention an author`s attitude on the abolishment of KartliKakheti kingdom. He writes: `Russian king Alexander intended to abolish kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti and the Russians conquered Georgia in 1802.The author thinks about this event, which took place in the 19th c., to be a conquest of Georgia by Russia. This fact indicates that middle class society of that time adequately estimates this undesirable event. In spite of that text of the cronicle is short, it presents an interesting material for studying the development of the stages of Georgian historiography.
