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Акты собранные Кавказскою археографическою комиссиею. Том III (1806-1809)
Author: Кавказская археографическая комиссия
Year of publication: 1869
Describes Russian colonization of peoples: several peoples
Publication rights: free (public domain: published in 1869)
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Where the knowledge base cites it
This material is cited in 10 places.
Campaigns
- Failed Attempt to Bribe Nokhchi Elders with Economic Promises in Exchange for Allegiance (1806)
…a proclamation offering economic benefits in exchange for accepting allegiance and ceasing armed resistance: for submission, the elders were promised access to salt, so that they «will be permitted to take from the local salt lakes by tickets, irrevocably, with payment of a very small fixed price», and the right «to drive cattle to this side of the Terek and freely use the vacant pasture lands»
- Bulgakov's Punitive Expedition: Devastation of Chechen Villages and Coercion into Allegiance (1807)
The plan of the commander-in-chief in the Caucasus, General Gudovich, was to strike suddenly, before the inhabitants could shelter their families in the mountains: «you would have caught them all by surprise, their cattle and families could not yet have been hidden by them in the mountains, and therefore their punishment and complete success in the matter would have been surer and more convenient»
General Bulgakov, commander of the Caucasian Line, broke through the fortified Khankala Gorge by storm and put villages to the torch; General Ivelich reported that Greater Chechen Ataga had been «consigned to fire», and its inhabitants had submitted, «whose villages were destroyed by fire»
Displeased that instead of a sudden reprisal a bloody war had resulted, General Gudovich, in a directive of March 20, 1807, refused to accept the storming of Khankala «on his own account» and emphasized the punitive, rather than military, character of the assignment: «you were sent not to wage war with the Chechen peoples, but to punish them and bring them into complete submission»
Summing up the expedition, General Bulgakov, commander of the Caucasian Line, reported that by force of arms the Chechens had been «brought to such a state that they will long feel the blow dealt to them, and, of course, will not soon regain strength»
Procedures
- Failed Attempt to Bribe Nokhchi Elders with Economic Promises in Exchange for Allegiance (1806) — technique Bribery of Elites
…the local salt lakes by tickets, irrevocably, paying a very small fixed price,” as well as the right “to drive livestock to this side of the Terek and freely use the vacant pasture lands.” The proclamation was conveyed to Chechen society and its elders (Kusu Al-Temir, Masarai, Idut), but subjecthood was not accepted; at the beginning of the following year the empire proceeded to armed invasion.
- Bulgakov's Punitive Expedition: Devastation of Chechen Villages and Coercion into Allegiance (1807) — technique Military Intervention
The commander of the Caucasus Line, General Bulgakov, reported that he had entered “for the exemplary punishment” of the Nokhchi communities, that the inhabitants, having gathered in number about 10,000, “resolved to perish rather than let the Russian troops pass through the gorge”; during the storming of the gorge, of the defending Chechens, according to his report, there were “about 1,000 killed on the spot”
- Bulgakov's Punitive Expedition: Devastation of Chechen Villages and Coercion into Allegiance (1807) — technique Punitive Expeditions
…him to wage war: “you were sent not to wage war with the Chechen peoples, but to punish them and bring them into complete submission.” The commander of the Caucasus Line, General Bulgakov, considered the outcome of the campaign to be that the Chechens had by force of arms been “brought to such a state that they will long feel the blow dealt to them and, certainly, will not soon regain strength”
- Bulgakov's Punitive Expedition: Devastation of Chechen Villages and Coercion into Allegiance (1807) — technique Total Destruction of Infrastructure
General Ivelich reported that the village of Bolshaya Chechenskaya Ataga was “consigned to fire” by the detachment of the commander of the Caucasus Line, General Bulgakov, while the remaining inhabitants, “whose villages were destroyed by fire,” agreed to subjecthood
- Bulgakov's Punitive Expedition: Devastation of Chechen Villages and Coercion into Allegiance (1807) — technique Forced Registration of Subjecthood
…whereof we give an oath according to our custom on the Holy Quran,” and for any violation the people subjected itself “to the strictest punishment and to the devastation of our dwellings without resistance”; the commander-in-chief in the Caucasus, General Gudovich, reported that the Chechens had been “completely subdued by force of arms and brought to an oath of eternal fidelity of subjecthood”
- Bulgakov's Punitive Expedition: Devastation of Chechen Villages and Coercion into Allegiance (1807) — technique Hostage-Taking
per month each”
- Bulgakov's Punitive Expedition: Devastation of Chechen Villages and Coercion into Allegiance (1807) — technique Bribery of Elites
in silver for bringing them into loyal subjecthood” was allocated
- Bulgakov's Punitive Expedition: Devastation of Chechen Villages and Coercion into Allegiance (1807) — technique Pitting Neighboring Peoples Against Each Other
…Chechen and Karabulak villages; at the same time, the Kabardians themselves refused to go directly “against the Chechens,” as their co-religionists, agreeing to act only “against the Karabulaks alone.” General Gudovich stated the aim of this incitement outright — “to set these two peoples at odds with each other and bring them into enmity against one another, and thereby weaken them over time”