摘要：This article contains a historiographical survey of the collections of national and foreign authors of the late 18th–19th centuries related the peoples of the North-West and Central Caucasus, as well as events that were taking place in the region. The authors note that the value of works examined in the article varies in terms of historiography. That said, alongside quite scientific works whose authors analyze prior publications starting from antiquity, as well as documentary materials of the 19th century, the major part of the collections is of an exclusively descriptive nature, containing collectively vast and diverse information of mainly an ethnographic nature.
