in the campaign “Mass Killing of Elders Summoned to a Demonstrative Execution at Gerzel-Aul (1825)”
The Russian Empire exterminated unarmed people whom it had itself convened under the pretext of an inquiry. Historian D. A. Khozhaev writes that after General Grekov attempted «to inflict a physical insult» on the Chechen mullah Uchar-Hadji from the village of Mayrtup and was killed by him, «after Lisanevich's command „Stab them! the mass extermination by the soldiers of all the unarmed highlanders present in the fortification began»[1]. The imperial historian Potto confirms that both generals «fell at the hand of a fanatic»[2]."