Najmuddin of Gotzo was a North Caucasian religious, military, and political leader who led multiple uprisings against the Bolsheviks during and after the Russian Civil War. A poet and teacher of Arabi
Najmuddin in the 1910s
Najmuddin of Gotzo's Appointment as Imam in Andi, a 1917 drawing by Xalilbeg Musajasul [ru] of the titular event
Anti-communist forces loyal to the Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus in Port-Petrovsk, April 1918
Several North Caucasian politicians as depicted by Eugene Lanceray, 20–25 January 1919. Najmuddin is third from left in the lower row.
Muhammad Said Shamil, also referred to in the North Caucasus as Muhammad Said Bey, or Said-Bek Shamil was a North Caucasian politician and émigré leader. The grandson of rebel leader Imam Shamil, Sham
Shamil in the 1930s
Said (right) pictured with his father, Muhammad Kamil, in Ottoman propaganda
Portrait of Shamil by Xalilbeg Musajasul [ru], 1920
Ayaz İshaki, Said Shamil, and Osman Kocaoğlu (from left to right) in Warsaw, 1938