The surrender of Imam Shamil in 1859 during the Russian Conquest of Chechnya and Dagestan. Imam Shamil, 1797 – 1871. Political, military, and spiritual leader of Caucasian resistance to Imperial Russia in the 1800s, third Imam of the Caucasian Imamate (1840–1859), and a Sunni Muslim Shaykh of the Naqshbandi Sufi Tariqa. From L'Univers Illustre, published Paris, 1859

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