Nicholas, Baron Leontine Pavlovitch: husband of Sophie Chavchavadze, brother-in-law of David and, by marriage, of Anna Chavchavadze. Commander of the fort at Khassav-Yurt, two days’ ride from Dargo-Veden, Shamil’s headquarters where the princesses were held, in 1854–1855. Jamal Eddin got along so well with him that he continued to request books from him during his detainment by his father.
Nicholas I (Gatchina, June 25, 1796–Saint Petersburg, February 18, 1855): third son of Paul Petrovitch Romanov and Maria Feodorovna. Married Charlotte of Prussia, known as Czarina Alexandra Feodorovna, in 1817. His reign began December 14, 1825.
Nicholas Nicolaïevitch (Tsarskoye Sielo, July 27, 1831–April 13, 1891): Third son of Nicholas I. Educated in the First Cadet Corps with Jamal Eddin, who was his age. Against his own wishes, he married Princess Alexandra Petrovna of Oldenburg February 6, 1856.
Olenin, Alexey Nicolaïevitch (1764–1843): illustrious grandfather of Elizaveta Petrovna Olenina, fiancée of Jamal Eddin. Member of the State Council, president of the Beaux-Arts Academy, director of the Public Library of Saint Petersburg, archaeologist, historian, the incarnation of Saint Petersburg intellectual life. At his country house in Priutino, he received his greatest contemporaries in the world of literature and art.
Olenin, Piotr Alexeyevitch (1793–1868): painter, second son of Alexey Nicolaïevitch Olenin. He and his older brother Nicholas Alexeyevitch fought at the Battle of Borodino in 1812. Father of Jamal Eddin’s fiancée.
Olenina, Anna Alexeyvna (1808–1888): youngest daughter of Alexey Olenin and Elizaveta Marcovna, sister of Piotr and aunt of Elizaveta, Jamal Eddin’s fiancée. Pushkin had proposed marriage to her at Priutino in 1829.
Olenina, Elizaveta Petrovna: born February 26, 1832, at Torjok, died in 1922 at the age of ninety. Fiancée of Jamal Eddin. She would marry several years after his death. Her family encouraged her to write her memoirs, and she described at length her tragic love affair with Jamal Eddin, whose memory she still worshipped.
Olga Nicolaïevna (1822–1892): second daughter of Nicholas I. Married Charles I of Wurttemburg in 1846.
Orbeliani, Elico (Prince Elizbar, Ilya Dmitrievitch Orbeliani, Elico) (1817–1853): married May 1, 1852, to Princess Varvara of Georgia. Ten years earlier, in 1842, he had been Shamil’s prisoner in Dargo for eight months. Younger brother of the famous poet Grigol Orbeliani, he too was a career officer in the Russian army. He was a colonel when he died at Oguzlu December 8, 1853, killed by the Turks. Elico Orbeliani had only one son, born shortly before his death.
Orbeliani, Prince Grigol (1804–1883): renowned Georgian poet and older brother of Elico Orbeliani, husband of Varenka of Georgia. He was commander of the fort at Temir-Khan-Chura during the exchange of March 10, 1855.
Pakkou-Bekkhe: queen (khanum) of Kunzakh, in Avaria, assassinated with all her children by the second imam, Hamzat Bek, and Shamil, in August 1834.
Paskyevitch, Prince Ivan Fedorovitch (Warsaw, 1782–1856): victor of the Russo-Turkish war, in 1826 he replaced Yermolov as viceroy of the Caucasus. He was recalled in October 1831 to fight the Poles, whose resistance he crushed mercilessly. From this time on, he was always accompanied by his guard of Cossacks and Muslims. In 1849, he was in charge of repressing the Hungarian uprising. He was much loved by Nicholas I, who called him his “father colonel.”
Patimat: Shamil’s older sister, born around 1795, killed at Akulgo in 1839.
Piotrovsky: Russian physician who treated Jamal Eddin in Soul-Kadi in 1858.
Potemkina, Tatiana Borissovna (1797–1869): daughter of Boris Andreyevitch Golitzine. At eighteen she married Alexander Mikhaïlovitch Potemkin, a marshal of the Saint Petersburg aristocracy. She owned several properties, one of which, Gostilitsy, was located near Peterhof. In Saint Petersburg, she lived on the well-known Million Street. A mystic and proselytizer, she prided herself on her prison visits and on the thousands of Muslims and Jews she had supposedly converted. Her great-niece Elizaveta Petrovna Olenina spent much of her time with Jamal Eddin in La Potemkina’s homes, at Gostilitsy, in Saint Petersburg, and at her property close to Torjok between 1850 and 1854.
Poullo, Colonel-General Nicholas: officer known for his cruelty, who met Shamil at Akulgo to attempt to open negotiations on August 16, 1839.
Preobrajensky Regiment: with the Chevaliers-Gardes and the Gardes-à-Cheval, the most prestigious regiment of the czar’s army.
Priutino: Alexis Nicolaïevitch Olenin’s family home hear Saint Petersburg, sold in 1838.
Pushkin, Alexander Sergueïevitch (Moscow, 1799–Saint Petersburg, 1837): Considered Russia’s greatest poet, he wrote splendid texts about the Caucasus, notably the myth of The Prisoner of the Caucasus, published in 1821.
Saïd: Shamil’s third son, killed by the Russians with his mother Jawarat as they fled from Akulgo in 1839.
Saïd al-Harakan: partisan of the Russians and mentor of the first imam of Dagestan, Khazi Mullah, who would eventually raze his home and burn all of his books.
Shamiclass="underline" father of Jamal Eddin, third imam of Dagestan. Born in Ghimri in 1797, died at Medina in 1871.
Soul-Kadi: village where Jamal Eddin died July 12, 1858.
Shibshiev: Jamal Eddin’s servant from 1849 to 1853.
Sinandali: Chavchavadze property in Georgia, from which the princesses were abducted in 1854.
Temir-Khan-Chura: Russian fort close to Ghimri and Akulgo from which Jamal Eddin was sent to Moscow in 1839.
Terek: Caucasian river celebrated by Pushkin, Lermontov, and Tolstoy.
Tiliq: city besieged by General Fézé in July 1837, from which Shamil was obliged to send his nephew Hamzat as a hostage.
Tolstoy, Leo Nicolaïevitch (1828–1910): one of the greatest Russian novelists of all time, who knew the Caucasus well and lauded it in his works. He fought there in 1854 and was haunted by the memory for the rest of his life. Author of Cossacks (1853) and Hadj Murat (1904).
Torjok: garrison town in the province of Tver, where Jamal Eddin’s regiment of the Vladimirsky Lancers was stationed from 1851 to 1854.
Tsarskoye Sielo (the village of the czar): town outside of Saint Petersburg where Jamal Eddin first studied. Summer residence of the imperial family, where he was received between 1847 and 1853. One of the imperial parks housed the “Invalides,” a home for horses put out to pasture and its cemetery.
Ulluh Bey: outlaw that General Grabbe commissioned to poison Shamil in 1840.
Untsukuclass="underline" native village of Fatima, first wife of Shamil and mother of Jamal Eddin. The village was razed by the imam for having betrayed him.
Varenka: see Grunzinskaya, Varvara Ilyinitchna.
Vladikavkaz: Russian fort.
Vladimirsky Lancers or Uhlans: regiment under the command of the czar’s brother, Mikhaïl Pavlovitch, which Jamal Eddin joined as a cornet June 9, 1849. At the death of Grand Duke Mikhaïl Pavlovitch on September 19, 1849, the regiment passed into the hands of Grand Duke Mikhaïl Nicolaïevitch, the seventeen-year-old son of Czar Nicholas and former classmate of Jamal Eddin. The Vladimirsky regiment became the thirty-eighth regiment of Vladikavkaz in 1862, when Grand Duke Mikhaïl Nicolaïevitch was named viceroy of the Caucasus and established his residence at Tiflis.