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

Pyotr Nikolayevich Gruzinsky (1837-1892)

The abandonment of the village by the mountaineers as the Russian troops approached, c. 1872

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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 entire population massacred. Leo Tolstoy reported that Russian soldiers would attack village houses at night. William Palgrave, a British diplomat who witnessed the events, adds that "their only crime was not being Russian". More on the Circassian genocide

Prince Pyotr Nikolayevich Gruzinsky (1837–1892) was a Russian painter of royal Georgian origin. Pyotr painted landscapes and genre paintings, and was also known for his paintings of battle scenes from the Caucasus War.

He was the son of Prince Nikoloz Gruzinsky and a scion of Mukhrani royal line of the Bagrationi dynasty that had moved to Imperial Russia in the 18th century. Pyotr Nikolayevich Gruzinsky was the last direct male descendant of King Vakhtang VI of Kartli and the last in the Mukhrani royal line. More on Pyotr Nikolayevich Gruzinsky

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