in the campaign “Punitive campaign and the devastation of the Nokhchi mountain communities (1617–1618)”
The occupation administration of Tersky Town employed mass terrorizing violence: in a petition to Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich, the Kabardian prince Sunchaley Yanglychevich Cherkassky reported that the military detachments «burned down and utterly ruined many Shibut and Kalkan and Erokhan and Michkiz kabaks»[1] and «slew many peo[ple]»[1].