Alexandra Lapierre - Between Love and Honor

Dengan:father of Shamil, free man of Ghimri, in Dagestan.

Dmitriev-Mamonov, Hippolite Alexandrovitch:widower of Praskovia Nevedomskaya in 1860, remarried Jamal Eddin’s former fiancée, Elizaveta Petrovna Olenina.

Engelhardt, Baron R. Antonovitch:married the widow of Dmitriev-Mamonov, Elizaveta Petrovna Olenina, former fiancée of Jamal Eddin.

Fézé, General Karl Karlovitch:butcher of Ashilta, Akulgo, and Tiliq in 1837.

Fatima:Jamal Eddin’s mother, first wife of Shamil, born at Untsukul in 1810, died at Alusind in 1845.

First Cadet Corps of Saint Petersburg:military school where Jamal Eddin spent eight years, from August 25, 1841 to June 9, 1849. The school is located on Vassilievsky Island in Saint Petersburg, a short distance from Alexey Olenin’s world at the Beaux-Arts Academy.

Garashkiti:village in greater Chechnya where Shamil and his family found refuge after their flight from Akulgo in 1839.

Ghimri:native town of Shamil and Jamal Eddin, besieged and razed in October 1832, then razed a second time after Shamil’s election to imam in 1834, and a third time by Shamil himself, in reprisal for the complicity of the inhabitants during the siege of Akulgo in 1839.

Glinka, Mikhaïl Ivanovitch(1804–1857): composer whose operas glorified Nicholas I, in particular A Life for the Czar , written in 1836, and Ruslan and Ludmilla (Pushkin’s heroes), in 1842.

Grabbe, Count Pavel Khristoforovitch(1789–1875): commander-in-chief of troops in the Caucasus in 1838, responsible for the abduction of Jamal Eddin at Akulgo in late August 1839. Recalled from the Caucasus, he was without a command for six years, then returned to service for the Hungarian uprising of 1849. He received a diamond-studded saber for his actions and ultimately became a member of the State Council.

Gramov, Isaac:Isaï Bey, Armenian, member of the general staff of Prince Grigol Orbeliani of Georgia. He served as interpreter during the exchange negotiations in 1855 and would again serve as Shamil’s interpreter at Kaluga.

Griboyedov, Alexander Sergueïevitch(Moscow 1795–Tehran 1829): In 1824 he wrote his play The Woes of Wit , which was performed in 1831. He married Georgian Princess Nino Chavchavadze (1812–1857), Prince David’s youngest sister, August 22, 1828, and was appointed Russian ambassador to Tehran, where he was subsequently assassinated.

Grosny:“The Terrifying,” Russian fort built by General Yermolov in 1819, at the same time as the famous military road to Georgia.

Gruzinskaya, Anna Ilyinitchna (Anna Chavchavadze)(1828–1905): eldest daughter of Ilya Grigoriyevitch Gruzinsky and Anastasia Grigoryevna, née Obolensky. In 1848, she married Prince David Chavchavadze, eleven years her senior, in Moscow. On July 4, 1854, she was abducted by Shamil at her home of Sinandali.

Gruzinskaya, Varenka Ilyinitchna (Varenka Orbeliani)(1831–1884): second daughter of Ilya Grigoriyevitch Gruzinsky and Anastasia Grigoryevna, née Obolensky. In May 1852, she married Prince Elico Orbeliani. He was thirty-six, she just twenty-one. In 1853 she gave birth to twins, only one of whom, George, survived. Her husband was killed at Oguzlu December 8, 1853. Shamil kidnapped her, with George, July 4, 1854. She remained in his custody until March 10, 1855. She died March 30, 1884. George was her only child.

Gruzinski (of Georgia):family of the direct descendants of the last king of Georgia, George XII (born 1746, died 1800), who sought Russia’s protection from Turkish and Persian invaders. Disregarding their pact, Russia simply annexed Georgia. His second wife, his widow Mariam Tsitsishvili (1768–1850), assassinated General Lazarev who had come to arrest her, in 1802. She was deported to Russia, then pardoned. She died at the age of eighty in 1850 and was buried at Tiflis with all the honors due her station.

Gruzinski, Colonel-Prince Elizbar (Ilya)(1790–1854): youngest son of George XII, last king of Georgia, and Queen Mariam. In 1827, at the age of thirty-seven, he married the daughter of Prince Gregory Petrovitch Obolensky, Princess Anastasia Grigoryevna Petrovitch Obolenskaya, who was born in Moscow September 25, 1805. The couple had five sons and eight daughters, including Anna Chavchavadze and Varenka Orbeliani.

Hadj Tasho al-Indiri:Chechen pretender to the imamat of Shamil in 1834, he would nonetheless join his ranks and participate in the battle of Akulgo.

Hadji Murat:foster brother of Omar, son of Pakkou-Bekkhe, queen of Kunzakh, assassinated by Shamil’s partisans. He passed over to the service of the Russians, then left them to return in 1851. Hero immortalized by Tolstoy.

Hamzat Bek:second imam who served Shamil during the conquest of Kunzakh. He was assassinated in 1834 by Hadji Murat.

Hamzat:Shamil’s nephew, offered as a hostage during the 1837 siege of Tiliq.

Ibrahim al-Husayn:Shamil’s cousin, muezzin at Akulgo during the siege of 1839.

Jamal Eddin:Shamil’s first son, born June 15, 1831, in Ghimri, died July 12, 1858, in Soul-Kadi.

Jamaluddin al-Ghumuqi al-Husayni:Shamil’s mentor, who initially disagreed with the holy war but changed his position and placed all his influence behind Shamil during his election to imam in 1834.

Jawarat:second wife of Shamil, born in Ghimri in 1821, died at Akulgo in 1839.

Kaluga:city located about 100 miles south of Moscow, where Shamil and his family lived in exile from 1859 to 1869.

Karata:district given in 1851 to Shamil’s son Mohammed Ghazi, where Jamal Eddin was kept under house arrest in 1858.

Karimat:daughter of Daniyal Bek, wife of Mohammed Ghazi.

Khadji:Shamil’s house steward.

Khassav-Yurt:fort where Jamal Eddin stayed from January to March 1855, before the exchange. In 1858, one of Shamil’s men would come here seeking the services of a doctor for Jamal Eddin.

Khazi Mullah:close friend and companion at arms of Shamil. First imam of Dagestan, born in Ghimri in 1793, died in Ghimri in 1832.

Kunzakh:capital of the khans of Avaria and of Queen Pakkou-Bekkhe. Shamil stole the city’s treasure in 1834.

Kiselyev, Pavel Dmitrievitch(Moscow, July 8, 1788–Paris, November 14, 1872): friend of Czar Nicholas I, one of the only liberals at court and one of the most brilliant promoters of the emancipation of the serfs. Himself childless, he concerned himself with the education of his Milyutin nephews.

Klüge von Klugenau, General Franz Karlovitch:attacked Ghimri in 1832 and negotiated the peace of 1837. Participated in all the wars of the Caucasus.

Krasnoye Sielo:village located near Saint Petersburg where the grand military maneuvers took place in the summer. Jamal Eddin participated in them in 1849 and 1853.

Krestovaya:parade of the cross whose main feature is a huge crucifix installed by Yermolov on the military route to Georgia.

Lermontov, Mikhaïl Yurievitch(Moscow, 1814–Piatigorsk, Caucasus 1841): Russian writer exiled to the Caucasus for the publication of his poem on the death of Pushkin ( The Death of the Poet , 1837). Frequent visitor at the Chavchavadze domain of Sinandali, he was killed in a duel July 15, 1841.

Machouk:home of Piotr Alexeyevitch Olenin (born in 1793, second son of Alexey Nicolaïevitch) and his wife, Maria (Macha Lvova, born in 1810), near Torjok in the province of Tver. Home where Elizaveta Petrovna Olenina (born February 26, 1832 at Torjok, known as Lisa or Lizok) grew up with her younger brothers and sisters, Alexis (born in 1833), Sergueï (1834), Tatiana (1836), and Nicholas (1838). Jamal Eddin spent all his free time at Machouk from 1852 to 1854.