in the campaign “Deprivation of the Nokhchi of political agency and the imposition of alien governance (1614–1616)”
The appointed occupation administration enslaved the Indigenous population: a petition submitted to Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich by the service Okochans of the Terek town stated that the Kabardian prince Sunchaley Yanglychevich Cherkassky «wrongfully sold 4 of our fellow Okochans»[1][2] and «took a wife into bondage and sent her off to his kabaks in Kabarda»[1][2].