This paper proposes a differentiative approach to analyzing Russian society by highlighting the different vantage points within the multi-national nature of contemporary Russia, its complex imperial legacy, and territorial variations. Focusing on how coloniality as condition reveals itself in tourist settings in Chechnya, it examines the evaluations of the region generated by tourists and their encounters with its sensitive past. The article also seeks to illuminate an important intersection between the geopolitics of tourism and memory politics by exploring the mechanisms of evoking a “forgotten,” politically challenging past on the individual level.
