Historiography of Russian-Caucasian relations is perhaps the most interesting and controversial intellectual space of Russian historical science. Therefore, it is not accidental that a number of detailed works devoted to this problem have appeared in recent years. Among them, it is necessary to mention the works of V. V. Degoev [Degoev, 2001], V. A. Shnirelman [Shnirelman, 2003, 2006], P. A. Kuzminov [Kuzminov, 2009], M. E. Kolesnikova [Kolesnikova, 2011]. Often, the development of Caucasian historiography was greatly influenced by politics and ideology. The history of the peoples of the North Caucasus left bleeding wounds in the historical memory, which are still felt to this day. For the Circassians, this is the period of the end of the Caucasian War and muhajirism, for the repressed peoples - the tragedy of deportation. These stories have long been overgrown with the growth of a malignant polemic, which is nothing more than a parasitic form of discussion, the goal of which is not to approach the truth, but to ensure the triumph of a "just" cause. However, the "Caucasian War of Historiography" is not limited to these topics (although it finds its most concentrated expression in them). One of the secondary discussions was the question of the origins and creators of the Caucasian military-people's administration system. Key words: Caucasus, military and people's administration, Russian Empire, A. I. Baryatinsky, M. S. Vorontsov. The system of military and popular administration was based on a combination of the traditions of mountain self-government and judicial proceedings with the principles of unity of command and control by the officers of the Russian army who were at the head of the administration. The People's Military Administration was destined to become one of the most successful administrative innovations in the Caucasus. In Dagestan, the military-people's administration, introduced in 1858, lasted until 1917 and brought beneficial results: "The revival of ... Read more