Alexandra Lapierre - Between Love and Honor

For readers who wish to explore further, I am providing here a short bibliography of works that have supported my work and added substance, including here only the texts relevant to history contemporary to the times of Jamal Eddin.

Dare I add, for a long time I was very skeptical of the rumor suggesting that Shamil’s son had actually been about to marry a young Russian aristocrat. I simply thought it was too beautiful to be true, and I followed this lead with the greatest circumspection. I was wrong. Discovering his fiancée’s memoirs was a great stroke of luck, and I shall start here by citing the references.

Most of the Olenin family collections are preserved in the archives of the city of Riazan, in Russia, in particular all the correspondence and several portraits. The manuscript of the Memoirs of Elizaveta Petrovna Olenina can be found in the state archives of literature and art in Moscow, under her married name:

ENGELHARDT, Elizaveta Petrovna, Vospominania , Rossiyskiy Gosudarstvennyi Arkhiv Literatury i Iskusstva. Fond 1124 (Olenin), opis’ 1, delo 10.

Abd El-Kader, Emir. Écrits Spirituels. Paris: Le Seuil, 1982.

Aboulela, Leila. The Lion of Chechnya. BBC drama, June 26, 2005.

Akty Sobrannye Kavkazskoyu Arkheografitcheskoyu Komisseiyu , vol. X, XI. Tiflis, 1888.

Alexe, Dan. “Les Guerres des Soufis” in Hérodote , no. 81.

Ali Khan, Masood. Encyclopaedia of Sufism, Vol. XII, Sufism and Naqshbandi Order . New Delhi: Anmol Publications, 2003.

Ali-Shah, Omar. Un Apprentissage du Soufisme. Paris: G. Trédaniel, 2001.

Anderson, Tony. Bread and Ashes, A Walk Through the Mountains of Georgia. London: Vintage, 2004.

Anthology of Georgian Poetry, The , vol. I. Honolulu: University Press of the Pacific, 2002.

Anthologie des Voyageurs Français aux XVIIIe et XIXe Siècles , “Le Voyage en Russie.” Paris: Robert Laffont, 1990.

Assatiani, Nodar and Bendianachvili, Alexandre. Histoire de la Géorgie. Paris: L’Harmattan, 1997.

Aucouturier, Michel. Tolstoï. Paris: Le Seuil, 1996.

——— Le Caucase Dans la Culture Russe. Paris: Institut d’études slaves, 1997.

——— Sémon, Marie. Tolstoï vu par les Écrivains et les Penseurs Russes. Paris: Institut d’Études Slaves, 1998.

——— Tolstoï et l’Art. Paris: Institut d’Études Slaves, 2003.

——— Jurgenson, Luba. Tolstoï et ses Adversaires. Paris: Institut d’Études Slaves, 2008.

Baddeley, John F. The Russian Conquest of the Caucasus. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1908.

——— The Rugged Flanks of the Caucasus , 2 vols. London: Oxford University Press, 1940.

Bagby, Lewis. Alexander Bestuzhev-Marlinsky and Russian Byronism. University Park: Penn State University Press, 1995.

Bell, James Stanislaus. Journal of a Residence in Circassia During the Years 1837, 1838 and 1839. London: Edward Moxon, 1840.

Benckendorff, Constantine. Souvenirs Intimes d’une Campagne au Caucase Pendant l’Été de 1845. Paris: Editions Grigorii Gagarin, 1858.

Bennigsen, Alexandre and Lemercier Quelquejay, Chantal. La Presse et le Mouvement National Chez les Musulmans de Russie Avant 1920. Paris: Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 1964.

——— Central Asia. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1969.

——— Les Musulmans Oubliés: l’Islam en URSS Aujourd’hui. Paris: F. Maspero, 1981.

——— Le Soufi et le Commissaire: les Confréries Musulmanes en URSS. Paris: Le Seuil, 1986.

——— Wimbush, S. Enders. Muslims of the Soviet Empire: A Guide. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986.

——— L’Islam Parallelo, le Confraternite Musulmane in Unione Sovietica. Genoa: Marietti, 1990.

Bennigsen, Marie and Avtorkhanov, Abdourakhman. The North Caucasus Barrier: The Russian Advance Towards the Muslim World. London: Hurst, 1992.

Berelowitch, Wladimir. Le Grand Siècle Russe d’Alexandre Ier à Nicolas II. Paris: Découvertes Gallimard, 2005.

Bérézine, Ilya Nikolaevitch. Voyage au Daghestan et en Transcaucasie. Paris: Geuthner, 2006.

Berry, Dr. Thomas E. Memoirs of the Pages to the Tsars. Calgary: Gilbert’s Royal Books, 2001.

Bitov, Andrei. A Captive of the Caucasus. London: Harvill, 1993.

Blanch, Lesley. Les sabres du paradis. Paris: Denoël, 2004.

——— The Sabres of Paradise. London: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2004.

——— Voyage au Cœur de l’esprit. Paris: Denoël, 2003.

Bliev, Mark and Degoev, Vladimir. Kavkazskaa Voïna. Moscow: Roset, 1994.

Bloomfield, Georgiana L. Reminiscences of Court and Diplomatic Life , vol. I. London: Elibron Classics, 2006.

Brayley Hodgetts, E.A. The Court of Russia in the Nineteenth Century , vol. I and II. London: Elibron Classics, 2005.

Buxhöwden, Baroness Sophie. Before the Storm. London: Macmillan and Co., 1938.

Bzarov, G. Russia and the Highlanders of the Greater Caucasus: On the Way to Civilization. Moscow: Mysl Publishers, 2004.

Cahiers du Monde Russe et Soviétique , vol. VII, no. 4, (October-December 1965). Bennigsen, Alexandre, “Un Témoignage d’une Française sur Chamil et les Guerres du Caucase,” 311–322.

——— Ibid. , vol. X, nos. 3 and 4, (July, December 1969). Boratav, Pertev. “La Russie dans les archives ottomanes, un dossier ottoman sur l’imam Chamil,” 524–535.

——— Ibid. , vol. XIX, nos. 1 and 2, (January–June 1978). Lesure, Michel. “La France et le Caucase à l’Époque de Chamil à la Lumière des Dépêches des Consuls Français,” 5–65.

——— Ibid. , vol. XXXIII, nos. 2 and 3, (April–September 1992). “Was General Klüge-von-Klugenau Shamil’s Desmichels?” 207–221.

Canard, Marius. Chamil et Abdelkader , vol. XIV, 231–256. Paris: Annales de l’Institut d’Études Orientales, 1956.

——— Les Reines de Géorgie dans l’Histoire et la Légende Musulmanes. Paris: Geuthner, 1969.

Carrère d’Encausse, Hélène. Réforme et Révolution Chez les Musulmans de l’Empire Russe. Paris: Presses FNSP, 1966.

——— La Politique Soviétique au Moyen-Orient. Paris: Presses FNSP, 1976.

——— L’Empire Éclaté. Paris: Flammarion, 1978.

——— L’Empire d’Eurasie, une Histoire de l’Empire Russe de 1552 à Nos Jours. Paris: Fayard, 2005.

——— Alexandre II. Paris: Fayard, 2008.

Cazacu, Mateï. Au Caucase: Russes et Tchéchènes, Récits d’une Guerre Sans Fin. Geneva: Georg Éditeur, 1998.

Central Asian Survey , vol. II, no. 1 (July 1983). Henze, Paul. “Fire and Sword in the Caucasus: the 19th Century Resistance of the North Caucasian Mountaineers,” 5–44.

——— Ibid. , vol. IV, no. 4 (autumn 1985) 7–45. (Three articles concerning Shamil by different authors).

——— Ibid. , vol. X, nos. 1 and 2 (1991). “Imam Shamil and Shah Mohammed: Two Unpublished Letters,” 171–179; “Shamil and the Murid Movement, 1830–1959: An Attempt at a Comprehensive Bibliography,” 189–247.

——— Ibid. , vol. XII, no. 3 (1993). “The Conqueror of Napoleon in the Caucasus,” 253–265.

——— Ibid. , vol. XIII, no. 2 (1994). “Prince Bariatinskii, Conqueror of the Eastern Caucasus,” 237–247.

——— Ibid. , vol. XVI, no. 3 (1997). “La Nouvelle ‘Guerre du Caucase,’” 413–424.