in the campaign “Punitive campaign and the devastation of the Nokhchi mountain communities (1617–1618)”
The punitive detachments physically exterminated the local population: in a petition to Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich, the Kabardian prince Sunchaley Yanglychevich Cherkassky reported that in the settlements they «slew many other peo[ple]»[1].