Correspondence and reports of Caucasus Viceroy Illarion Vorontsov-Dashkov, 1905–1915
Illarion Ivanovich Vorontsov-Dashkov, 1905 · Russian State Historical Archive (RGIA), St Petersburg
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Russian Imperial primary documentation of the August 1905 Shusha disturbances and the broader 1905-06 Armenian-Tatar violence cycle. Vorontsov-Dashkov was appointed Caucasus Viceroy in May 1905 specifically to address the violence; his correspondence with the Imperial centre at St Petersburg, including telegrams about Shusha August 1905 and the Imperial military intervention, is the canonical Russian Imperial archival source. Held at RGIA (St Petersburg); partially published in Soviet-era documentary collections.
Cited by events (1)
- Shusha pogrom (1905) 1905
Cited in disputes (1)
- Shusha, August 1905 academic-consensus Academic / Russian-Imperial-archival consensus: shared blame within Imperial breakdown
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Event Shusha pogrom (1905) 3 cites - Illarion Vorontsov-Dashkov was appointed Caucasus Viceroy in May 1905 with a specific brief to manage the inter-ethnic violence that Russian official documents called the "Armenian-Tatar war".
- Vorontsov-Dashkov dispatched additional regular forces from Yelisavetpol (Ganja) to Shusha and reinforced the local Imperial police presence on 19–20 August 1905.
- Świętochowski (1985) reads the 1905-06 South Caucasus violence as inter-communal disturbances mediated by Russian Imperial state failure rather than as a sustained inter-ethnic war; treats Vorontsov-Dashkov's ~200 Armenian / ~100 Muslim enumeration as the most evidentiarily authoritative.