Marzoev, Islam-Bek T.
Izvestia SOIGSI. 2020. IIS 36 (75).

Abstract:
This article presents a document stored in the funds of the Central State Historical Archive of
Georgia and relating to the time of the Ossetian settlement on the left bank of the Terek River in the
area of the Mozdok fortress at the beginning of the XIX century. Founded by immigrants from the
Digor Society of North Ossetia, two Ossetian villages were named: Staroosetinskoe (Erashti) and
Novoosetinskoe (Masukau). Currently, these are the villages: Chernoyarskaya and Novosetinskaya
of Mozdok district of North Ossetia-Alania. This is one of the earliest documents concerning the
settlement of the Mozdok Plain by the Ossetian settlers. It is a family-wide list of residents of these
two villages, compiled in 1830 from information collected in 1818 and contains valuable historical
and ethnographic material. This document of the Central State Historical Archive of Georgia was
first put into scientific circulation. The aim of this work is to study the number of families in villages,
surnames and names, family composition, age at the time of the census, the social composition of
the inhabitants of these villages, religious affiliation, as well as information on the military service
of the migrants and their military ranks. Of particular interest to the study are marriages. Cases of
interethnic marriages among Ossetian immigrants, the tradition of polygamy have been identified.
This list provides rich information on onomastics. A distinctive feature of the family lists given in the
article from similar censuses in Ossetia of the 19th — early 20th centuries. is that they contain the
names and surnames of women, their age, both in the Christian families of these two villages, and in
Muslim. The materials of the article significantly supplement the history of North Ossetia in the first
half of the 19th century, and also contribute to a deeper and more updated study of the genealogy of
Ossetian settlers on the Mozdok Plain.

Keywords: Caucasus, North Ossetia, Mozdok, Cossacks, family lists, genealogy

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