Documents to the history of the Highest grant of lands by Zolka and Etoka (1839)

The article presents documents from the Russian State Military Historical Archive (RGVIA) containing information about the history of the allotment to Kabardins the lands lying along Zolka and Etoka rivers. The relevance of the proposed documents lies in the need to introduce new materials into scientific circulation, for a more complete study of the circumstances why the issue of the lands between Zolka and Etoka was acute for decades and why it was not resolved until the end of the 80-s of the XIX century. The presented documents highlight the interdepartmental correspondence after the petition filed by Kabardin deputies addressed to Emperor Nicholas I during his trip to the Caucasus in 1837. The documents allow a new look at the historical events associated with these lands. And how the ethnopolitical strategy of the Caucasian administration influenced the distribution of the land fund. The documents presented in the appendix are published with the preservation of the stylistic and archeographic features of the original, as in the citations of the introduction article.