The Russian conquest of the Caucasus mainly occurred between 1800 and 1864. The Russian Empire sought to control the region between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea. South of the mountains was the territ
Capture of Erivan (modern day Yerevan), 1827
The Caucasus from space
Tsitsianov who unified Georgia and won most of Transcaucasia for Russia.
Kotlyarevsky, the hero of Akhalkalaki and Lenkoran whose victory ended the Persian war
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.
Russian conquest of the Caucasus
…turned to the Murid War (1830-1859) in which the mountaineers of Dagestan and Chechnya united and held out until 1859. In the western mountains the long Russo-Circassian War continued. It ended in 1864 with the expulsion to Turkey of several hundred thousand Circassians. The Crimean War (1853-1856) changed little. In 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