The author considers it "timely" to recall these days the history of relations between Russia and Georgia and the Caucasus in general. A.A. Tsagareli especially notes the fact that in Georgia itself there are almost no written monuments and documents about this centuries-old neighborhood, "partly due to the repeated devastation and ruin of Georgian archives and book depositories, partly from the inability to store them." Fortunately, these monuments were preserved in large numbers in the Moscow Main Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where the affairs of the Ambassadorial Order were transferred.