Catalogue · ID 74
Кавказская война. В 5 томах. Том 1. От древнейших времен до Ермолова
Author: Потто В. А.
Year of publication: 2006
Published in: Москва: Центрполиграф, 2006
Describes Russian colonization of peoples: Nokhchi (Chechens)
Publication rights: not allowed (a 2006 publication under copyright)
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Where we got it
Edition: https://books.google.com/books/about/Кавказская_война_Том_1.html?id=Un4NTvA9oUcC
Where the knowledge base cites it
This material is cited in 8 places.
Campaigns
- Cyclical Rebuilding and Elimination of Fortifications on the Sunzha River (1571–1653)
Potto indicates the reason for the base's elimination: it "was soon destroyed to appease the Turkish sultan"
- Propagandistic Inversion of Roles and Dehumanization (1800–1864)
Zhukovsky glorified the destruction of villages: «Toward the villages — the villages blaze»
- Punitive devastation of the Nokhchi villages along the Sunzha and pitting neighboring peoples against them under Rtishchev (1813-1816)
Colonel Eristov twice crossed the Terek and devastated Chechen villages; the second time he "exterminated several villages along the Sunzha" and forced the Nokhchi to give up amanats (hostages)
General Rtishchev demanded that the highlanders be won over "not by arms, but by kind treatment"
Procedures
- Propagandistic Inversion of Roles and Dehumanization (1800–1864) — technique Cultivation of a Logic of Superiority
Zhukovsky extolled the destruction of infrastructure by military commanders: «Scarcely at the villages - the villages blaze»
- Consolidation in Chechnya: Bribery of Elders, Economic Control, and Setting Neighbors against One Another (1809-1811) — technique Pitting Neighboring Peoples Against Each Other
In July 1810, while pursuing a retreating Chechen party, the commanding general Ivelich, according to the imperial historian Potto, «talked the nearest Ingush auls, in view of the prospect of great gain, into cutting off its retreat»; the incited Ingush attacked the Chechens, and the latter «suffered such a loss that they abandoned even the body of their leader on the battlefield»
- Punitive devastation of the Nokhchi villages along the Sunzha and pitting neighboring peoples against them under Rtishchev (1813-1816) — technique Punitive Expeditions
The imperial historian Potto writes that Colonel Eristov «crossed the Terek a second time and, after a stubborn battle, destroyed several villages along the Sunzha»
Commander-in-chief General Rtishchev condemned «such expeditions» and demanded that the mountaineers be won over «not by arms, but by kind treatment»
- Punitive devastation of the Nokhchi villages along the Sunzha and pitting neighboring peoples against them under Rtishchev (1813-1816) — technique Total Destruction of Infrastructure
The imperial historian Potto writes that Colonel Eristov, having crossed the Terek, after a stubborn battle burned and razed «several villages along the Sunzha»
- Punitive devastation of the Nokhchi villages along the Sunzha and pitting neighboring peoples against them under Rtishchev (1813-1816) — technique Hostage-Taking
The imperial historian Potto writes that after Colonel Eristov had laid waste to the villages along the Sunzha, the Nokhchi «gave amanats (hostages), promising to trouble the Russian borders no more»