Umalat Laudaev
Umalat Laudaev | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1827 |
| Died | 1890s |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Ethnography and local history |
| Military career | |
| Allegiance |  Russian Empire |
| Service/ | Imperial Russian Army |
| Years of service | 1830s – 1862 |
| Rank | Rittmaster |
Umalat Laudaev (Russian: Умалат Лаудаев, IPA: [ʊməɫət ɫəʊdə(j)ɪf];[a] c. 1827 — 1890s) was the first Chechen ethnographer and a Russian officer known for the publication of his only work Chechen tribe published in the Collection of information about the Caucasian highlanders in 1872.
Biography
Little is known about Laudaev's life. From his personal appeal to the Russian administration, it's known that his great-grandfather was Nogai-Mirza who emigrated from Ichkeria to Terek where he founded an eponymous village with the Russian authorities' allowance. Both the grandfather and father of Laudaev lived in the village of Nogai-Mirza-Yurt throughout their life's. Here, Laudaev was born too.[1] From the 1886 census conducted in the village, Laudaev's age is indicated as 69 which historian Nikolai Gritsenko sees as a typo that should be read as 59. This coupled up with Laudaev's other biographical information makes Gritsenko assume that Laudaev was born in 1827.[2]
According to the folklore, Laudaev received his education at the Terek Cossacks school. At the age of 12, Laudaev was sent by his family to study at the Second St. Petersburg Cadet Corps. After graduating from there, he was sent to serve in the Caucasus in 1830s. In 1862 Laudaev was already a rittmaster. After his retirement, he settled in his native village, Nogai-Mirza-Yurt.[3]
Publications
Notes
- ^ Pre-reform orthography: Умалатъ Лаудаевъ.
References
- ^ Gritsenko 1966, p. 103.
- ^ Gritsenko 1966, pp. 103–104.
- ^ Gritsenko 1966, p. 104.
Sources
- Gritsenko, Nikolai (1966). Археолого-этнографический сборник [Archaeological and ethnographic collection]. Известия ЧИНИИИЯЛ при СМ ЧИАССР [News of ChIRIHLL under the Council of Ministers of the ChIASSR (in Russian). VII (1). Grozny: ChIKI: 103–110.
{{cite journal}}:|chapter=ignored (help); Missing or empty|title=(help) - Shnirelman, V. A. (2006). Kalinin, I. (ed.). Быть Аланами: Интеллектуалы и политика на Северном Кавказе в XX веке [To be Alans: Intellectuals and Politics in the North Caucasus in the 20th Century] (in Russian). Moskva: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie. pp. 1–348. ISBN 5-86793-406-3. ISSN 1813-6583.
- Smirnov, I. A.; Bokov, Kh. Kh.; Vinogradov, V. B.; Goygova, Z. A.-G.; Gritsenko, V. N.; Krupnov, E. I.; Salamov, A. A.; Samarzin, V. S.; Topakalyan, N. A.; Chentieva, M. L., eds. (1967). Очерки истории Чечено-Ингушской АССР [Essays on the history of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR] (in Russian). Vol. 1. Grozny: Chech.-Ing. kn. izd-vo.