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.
Maria Nicolaïevna (1819–1879): grand duchess, eldest daughter of Nicholas I. Married the first time to Maximilian, Duke of Leuchtenberg in 1839, widowed in 1853. She was secretly engaged to Gregory Alexandrovitch Stroganov, without her father’s knowledge and with the complicity of Tatiana Borissovna Potemkina, in the church at Gostilitsy, but married for the second time only in 1856, after her father’s death.
Mikhaïl Nicolaïevitch (October 13, 1832–1909): fourth son and seventh child of Nicholas I, student at the First Cadet Corps of Saint Petersburg with Jamal Eddin. In September 1849, when the uncle for whom he was named, Mikhaïl Pavlovitch, died of a heart attack in Warsaw, he took over the command of all of his regiments, including the Vladimirsky Lancers, to which Jamal Eddin belonged. He became viceroy of the Caucasus in 1862.
Mikhaïl Pavlovitch: grand duke and younger brother of Nicholas I, born in 1798, died of a heart attack in September 1849, during maneuvers in Warsaw. Married Elena Pavlovna in February 1824. He was in charge of the administration of all the military schools of Moscow and Saint Petersburg and was inspector general of the First Cadet Corps and the Pages’ Corps. Jamal Eddin chose to belong to the regiment of Grand Duke Mikhaïl Pavlovitch, whose ward he had been since his arrival in Russia. Thus he joined the Vladimirsky Lancers in 1849.
Milyutin, Dmitri Alexeyevitch (1816–1912): after various posts in the army, requested transfer to the Caucasus in 1839. He served under General Grabbe, participated in the siege of Akulgo, and was wounded several times during the campaign. He took notes on all he saw and was the author of drawings of the mountain and the two plateaus used by the Russians. His journal gives a day-by-day account of the siege and does not fail to mention Russian atrocities. He returned in 1840 and spent three years in Saint Petersburg, leaving for the Caucasus once again in 1843. This tour was even more frustrating than the last, since his superiors ignored his suggestions for pacification. He thought of resigning from the army but found a post at the military academy. In 1848, he attracted the attention of the minister of war, with whom he became close. In November 1854, he presented a report on the wars of the Caucasus to Nicholas I. In 1856, Alexander II took his information into account before sending him back to combat Shamil for a third time. He followed Prince Bariatinsky, the new viceroy, in March 1856. He was present at Gunib when Shamil surrendered in 1859. He returned to Saint Petersburg in July 1860. A few years later, he became minister of war.
Mohammed al-Yaragli (Sheik): spiritual master of two of the imams of Dagestan, Khazi Mullah and Shamil. Partisan of the holy war.
Mohammed Ghazi: second son of Shamil, born in April 1833 in Ghimri, proclaimed heir to the imam, naïb of Karata, and married Kherimat, daughter of Daniyal Bek, in 1851. Died at Medina in 1902.
Mohammed Sheffi: third son of Shamil, born in 1839 in Baïan, died in 1904 in Piatigorsk.
Muraviev, General Count Nicholas Mikhaïlovitch (known as Muraviev-Karskii, to distinguish him from his son, “the hanger of Warsaw,” and several others who shared his name, “Karskii” meaning he who took the city of Kars, 1794–1866): general in charge of Russian troops in Warsaw in 1854. It was he who received the letter of Czarevitch Alexander, son of Nicholas I, describing the abduction of the Georgian princesses by Shamil and the necessity of informing Lieutenant Jamal Eddin. In his memoirs, he describes the young man’s surprise and his reactions. He himself became general in chief of the Army of the Caucasus and made part of the trip to the mountains at the beginning of 1855 with Jamal Eddin. He reported regularly to the minister of war concerning Jamal Eddin’s situation after the latter returned to his father.
Mohammed Mirza Khan: heir to Queen Pakkou-Bekkhe at Kunzakh, pro-Russian.
Naqshbandi: Sufi brotherhood to which Shamil belonged.
Neidhardt: general who replaced Grabbe and Golovine in 1843, whose vulgarity influenced the decision of Daniyal Bek, sultan of Elisou, to change sides and support Shamil.