The article takes an approach to the «Caucasian» cycle of Pushkin as a kind of «super-genre unity» (M. N. Darwin). Considered various editions of the cycle. From the position of imagology, in the architectonic unity of the cycle, the systemic principles of mastering the image of the «other» – the image of the «man of the East» and the Caucasus as an «alien» locus – are revealed. The question is raised about the peculiarities of the «other» and «alien» categories in relation to Pushkin's oriental motifs.