Grigory Zass
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Grigory Khristoforovich von Zass was an Imperial Russian general who commanded Russian cavalry troops in the Napoleonic Wars and Russo-Circassian War, initially gaining prominence for his genocidal ac
Grigory von Zassz 1797–1883
Zass's headquarters in the Caucasus, Prochnyi Okop (modern-day Prochnookopskaya)
Russo–Circassian War
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The Russo–Circassian War, also known as the Russian invasion of Circassia, or termed by the Circassians as the Great War with the Tsar took place in the North Caucasus between July 1763 and June 1864.
Grigory Zass
…German: Georg Otto Ewald Freiherr von Saß; 1797–1883) was an Imperial Russian general who commanded Russian cavalry troops in the Napoleonic Wars and Russo-Circassian War, initially gaining prominence for his genocidal actions against the Circassians, whom he reportedly saw as a "lowly race". He was the founder of the…
Heinrich Ambrose Eckert Battle between Cossacks and Circassians
Presidents of the Circassian Confederation
Circassian patrol
A Cossack Post on the Approach of the Circassians