Caucasus in records and paintings of 19th century Europeans

Abstract

The creations of three Europeans who came to the Caucasus, including Georgia, with different missions are interesting: the paintings left by Heinrich Theodor Welle, a member of a scientific expedition organized by the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences at the beginning of the century, are unique; Paintings and letters of the artist Teodor Horschelt, who fought against the peoples of the North Caucasus in 1858-1862, are important for studying the history of the Caucasian War. as part of the army of the Russian Empire; The drawings of Ernst Haeckel, a world-famous scientist, zoologist who came to Georgia on a trip in 1897, are made with amazing simplicity.