POPULATION OF ALTAI MOUNTAINS IN N. M. YADRINTSEV’S RECEPTION (BASED ON THE NEWSPAPER “EASTERN REVIEW”)

Abstract

The article examines the images of foreigners and Russians of the Altai Mountains in the journalistic texts published in the newspaper “Vostochnoe obozrenie” (“Eastern Review”) of N.M. Yadrintsev, a prominent scientist, publicist, one of the founders of Siberian regionalism. The newspaper forms public opinion, advocated the equality of the Siberian outskirts with the central parts of Russia, for the spread of zemstvo and judicial reforms to Siberia, promoted the ideas of wide publicity, guarantees of the individual against arbitrariness, and the spread of public education. Yadrintsev forms the most important discourse of the empire about the mountain frontier of the southern part of the Tomsk province. This discourse combines political, geographical, cultural and ideological concepts that define the role of Gorny Altai as the most important state of Russian politics in the East, as well as symbols of the cultural revival of the territory inhabited by a brave people.