Kunduhov, Musa Alkhasovich

Musa, the fifth son of the Ossetian Aldar , a Muslim Alhasta, was born in the spring of 1818. At the age of 12 he was taken by Amanat to St. Petersburg , where in 1836 he graduated from the Pavlovsk Military School . Determined by a cornet in cavalry as part of the Separate Caucasian Corps . Accompanied Nicholas I on a trip to the Caucasus in 1837 . In 1841, promoted to captain .

In 1848, Major Kunduhov was instructed to form two hundred of the mountaineers to reinforce the Caucasian Equestrian Division stationed in Warsaw . In March 1849, a division formed from two hundred, under the command of Kunduhov, on the orders of the Chief of Staff of the army in action, Prince Gorchakov, launched a campaign in Hungary .

At the end of the Hungarian campaign , on September 24 of the same year, he arrived with the battalion to the place of permanent deployment in Warsaw. He was appointed commander of the reinforced Caucasian equestrian division. He served in this position until April 18, 1852 , when he was dismissed on a four-month vacation in the Caucasus.

Returning to the Caucasus, he participates in negotiations with Shamil that ended unsuccessfully.

During the Crimean War, Kundukhov with the rank of lieutenant colonel led the organization of the mountain cavalry militia, with which he participated in operations against the Turks in Transcaucasia . September 9, 1853, Lieutenant Colonel Kunduhov was awarded the Golden Saber with the inscription "For Bravery" ^[1] . Produced in colonels .

By the end of the 1850s , he was the head of the Military Ossetian , and then also the Chechen district of the Terek region. In 1860 he was promoted to major general . November 26 of the same year for the 25-year service in the officer ranks awarded the Order of St. George IV class ^[2]

Cavalier of the Order of Saint Vladimir of the 4th degree with a bow (1841), Saint Stanislav of the 2nd degree (1842), Saint Anne of the 2nd degree with the imperial crown (1851), Saint Vladimir of the 3rd degree (1858), Saint Stanislav 1 degree (1861), St. Anne 1st degree (1861), Knight's Cross of the Austrian Order of Leopold .

He proposes to the leadership a project for the relocation ( Muhajirism ) of a part of Ossetian Muslims, Chechens of Minor Chechnya and Karabulaks to the Ottoman Empire , and, unexpectedly for many, heads it.

In early March 1865, with a five-thousand party of the mountaineers, Kundukhov headed by land through the Georgian Military Road and Georgia in the direction of Kars , which arrives on June 22 . The sons Aslambek and Bekirbey (the future Foreign Minister of Turkey), the brothers Afako and Kazbulat are going with him to Turkey.

Accepts Turkish citizenship. Gets the title of Pasha, the position of divisional general.

During the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878, he commanded a large Turkish cavalry detachment of up to 4 thousand horsemen. In a night battle from May 17 to 1877 near the village of Begli-Ahmet , east of Kars, the Kunduhov detachment was defeated by the 2nd division of the Nizhny Novgorod Dragoon Regiment under the command of Major Kerim Bek Novruzov .

In recent years, Musa Kunduhov lives in Erzerum, where he first commands the local garrison, and then retires. He was buried in the territory of Erzurum mosque Harmanli.

• Vladimir Degoev . "General Musa Kunduhov: the story of one illusion"
• Kunduhov Mussa Alhastovich (Mussa Pasha); portrait
• Moussa Kunduhov "Memoirs"
• List of senior generals . Corrected on March 13th. - SPb., 1861

• Ossetians in Turkey