07 February 2009, 17:00
Memoirs on "White Movement" in Northern Caucasus published in Kabardino-Balkaria
The Kabardino-Balkarian Human Rights Centre has hosted a presentation of the memoirs of Konstantin Chkheidze entitled "General Dautokov-Serebryakov in Civil War".
In the years of Civil War, the author of the memoirs was personal aide-de-camp of Z. Dautokov-Serebryakov, Commander of Kabardian regiments, and after his death - personal aide-de-camp of Prince Bekovich-Cherkasskiy, Commander of the Kabardian Horsed Division and Kabarda Governor.
While opening the presentation, Valery Khatazhukov, head of the Human Rights Centre, has noted that the time of Civil Car and repressions is one of least studied pages in the history of the republic. In his opinion, the reason is that "for a long time the authorities preferred not to stir up the past."
"The evidences of Konstantin Chkheidze are priceless. They can radically change the attitude to the Civil War and to what happened here," Mr Khatazhukov believes. The appearance of the memoirs, as he noted, is a great achievement of young historian Osman Zhansitov, who found them in archives and published for his own money.
In the opinion of Mr Zhansitov, thanks to these memoirs, readers can for the first time obtain information about the life of Kabardian and Balkar elites during the revolution.
Author: Louisa Orazaeva Source: CK correspondent
