About A. N. Karasev’s Study Trip to the Caucasus in 1933

Abstract

The materials of the Scholarly Archive of IHMC RAS testify that in the autumn of 1933 A. N. Karasev undertook a study trip to the Caucasus. He visited Sukhumi, Batumi, Tbilisi and acquainted himself with a number of museum collections and archaeological sites. The trip was a part of the project “Antique colonization of the Caucasus”. There are grounds to think that it became the final expression of the grandiose project that was nurtured by A. A. Miller within the framework of the Taman Expedition of GAIMK (1930–1931).