in the campaign “Bribery of the Nobility and Institutionalization of the Hostage System (1735)”
The occupation administration of the Russian Empire bought the loyalty of the local nobility with state payments: historian Ya. Z. Akhmadov states that, according to General-in-Chief V. Ya. Levashov, the senior Chechen prince Aidemir «was accepted into Russian subjecthood and was assigned a permanent tsarist stipend»[1], and in general «The princes and their uzdens even began to receive monetary allowances from the Russian government»[1].