Feze's spring tour across Chechnya (February-April 1837) was built on demonstrative violence converted into submission. Rozen's report to Minister of War Chernyshev of 4 March 1837 records the result of the annihilation of the auls: "the Chechens, gripped by fear from the preceding actions... fell into great despondency"[1] - after which the oaths followed one after another. Feze himself reported the calculation to General Velyaminov on 15 March 1837: he acted "with the intention of making use, as far as possible, of the panic fear" that had gripped "the Tavlins and the Andians" after the battle at Avtury[2]; Rozen's report of 11 March uses the same word for the demand of submission from the Andians - "wishing to make use of the fear"[1]. Fear drove people off their land: after the March sweeps through the forests the inhabitants, according to the report of 12 April, "were compelled by these searches to withdraw into the distant mountains"[1].