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Abstract. The problems of appointment as judges of the Mozdok boundary court of representatives of indigenous people of the North Caucasian region at the end of 18th–the first decades of the 19th century are considered within the historical elitologiya framework in the article. Mechanisms of integration of the pro-Russian focused regional elite into political and legal space of the Russian Empire and the forms of their nobilitation through the fixation of the privileges in state regulation acts are investigated. Historical conditions and circumstances of establishment of the Mozdok court, its place in the system of public authorities of the region, a circle of the investigated affairs, and the ethnic composition of trial participants are characterized. The completing order of court’s structure and its first composition are considered in detail, paying attention to the elective principle. Regional elite appointment to the structure of the administrative and judicial organizations established by the Russian authorities and salary payment from the Russian treasury are shown as the main channels of ritual and symbolical fixing of their exclusive status. The procedure of confirmation of court president, clergy and judges from local population are also examined. It concludes that, at this period, the democratic forms of integration into Russia were developed and tested for more optimal cooperation of Russian authorities with representatives of regional ethnic elites.
Keywords: Central Caucasus, Mozdok boundary court, historical elitology, national policy, social status, integration, ritual and symbolical practices.