Tag: Pyotr Nikolayevich Gruzinsky

01 Work, The Art of War, Pyotr Nikolayevich Gruzinsky’s The abandonment of the village by the mountaineers, with footnotes

Dec 30, 2023

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During the Russo-Circassian War, the Russian Empire employed a genocidal strategy of massacring Circassian civilians. Only a small percentage who accepted Russification and resettlement within the Russian Empire were completely spared. The remaining Circassian population who refused were variously dispersed or killed en masse. Circassian villages would be located and burnt, systematically starved, or their…