Russian Socio-Economic and Demographic Expansion in the Principality of Odishi (Samegrelo) in The 30s and 60s of the 19th Century According to the Diaries of Foreign Confidants

Abstract

In the travel diaries of foreign confidants we have found the reasons for the high degree of poverty and socio-economic decline described in Odishi's life in the structure of the conquest plan of a low political culture empire. The Russian Empire is waiting for an opportune moment in its ambush position to torture the Odishi principality with its socio-economic, demographic policies, de facto and de jure, and turn the ancient trade routes between Georgia and Europe and Asia, namely the Turkish Sea into the Black Sea. At least in part, it turned into a lake in Russia. Under these conditions, the empire fully described the natural resources of Odishi, made it a raw material supplement, and applied its demographic transformation as well.

Keywords

• Odishi (Georgia),
• The Black Sea,
• Russian Empire,
• Confidents

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