Running biography

Songs are composed of him, they are given as an example of youth. Kochiev’s running with a handful of supporters for several days resisted the tsarist troops and heroically died in an unequal battle. This is a brief presentation of a beautiful legend. Events related to the history of Kochiev’s running belong to the era of the approval of the Russian Empire in Georgia.

By this time, both parts of Ossetia were under the Russian administration, but the southern and central Ossetia were territorially included in the Tiflis province. Georgian landowners took advantage of this, presenting the tsarist administration of the right to Ossetian lands. The Russian administration, unfortunately, largely satisfied these requirements. And where the claims of the Georgian princes were related to the resistance of the local population, used military power.

This is exactly what happened years ago in the year in South Ossetia. In a brief preamble, an order to organize a military expedition, which was sent to General Ranennempfu, a banal task for that time was formulated: “To stop the pranks and predation, produced by Ossetian tribes in cardalynia,” it was clear that this intention excited its prospect of appetite of the Georgian nobility. The peculiarity of the situation was that the south of Ossetia, like the whole of Iryston, considered itself as part of the Russian state and its population demanded from the Russian authorities the liberation from Georgian claims.

This military campaign against the Highlanders-Ossetians is described in sufficient detail. Several chronicle evidence of military operations recorded by direct participants in the campaign in Mountain Ossetia is known. Count Paskevich, F. Chudinov left their memories in the form of records, V. Therefore, we have a fairly complete picture of the events taking place then.

The first large settlement, which was decided to take by the attack, was the village of Java Dzau. However, the dzaites considered it more reasonable not to resist the troops and sent 18 of their representatives for negotiations. It all ended with mutual assurances in peaceful intentions. The military team moved further and soon entered the Chesulative Gorge - the main “robbers nest”, as Tiflis was believed.

The main battles unfolded at Mount Zikar, where Ossetians strengthened well. They met the attacks of the Russian-Georgian troops with great bitterness. Huge stones collapsed to General Rennenkampf’s detachments, and the soldiers with losses were forced to retreat. The general proposed negotiations. Ossetian foremen, seeing the meaninglessness of the battle with regular troops, constantly replenishing the detachments of the Georgian princes, decided to come to the general and take the oath of humility.

This was also forced by the difficult food position of both the participants in the battles and numerous refugees. However, not everyone shared the decision of the foremen. Many, for example, Kabsov, went into the forests, and Kochiev’s surname decided to continue her resistance. General Rennenkampf sent Prince Machabel there with a detachment so that he would bring the inhabitants of this society to humility and take hostages from them.

This was the main mistake of the Russian commander. Seeing the Georgian prince as an official representative of the authorities, Ossetians considered this as the intention of the forced subordination of their country to the Georgian princes. From this moment, a new stage of confrontation begins. Now, in each village of Russian and Georgian units, Ossetians turned out to be desperate resistance.

After all, the highlanders, who saw the Georgian princes, along with Russian soldiers, clearly understood the goals with whom the troops came to them. Here, in the tower of the Kochieva surname, the highlanders, led by the Run of Kochiev, kept the defense. The siege of the tower was carried out day and night - some soldiers replaced others. A variety of combat maneuvers were undertaken to master the fortification.

Among the attempts that ended in failure, there was also a decision to make a digging under the tower and blow it up, but the foundation of the tower left too deep. The courage of the defenders of Cola did not leave indifferent even noble historians who described the events of the year in South Ossetia. So, V. Chudinov, not without surprise, noted that "the besieged sang in full throat, cheerfully threw stones, mocked our efforts and, apparently, preferred the death of all mercy." In the end, it was decided to set fire to the tower, overlapping it with brushwood.

The fire swept the roof of the tower, throwing the structure of the building. Realizing the hopelessness of the situation, the defenders of the strengthening, led by running, left the flaming tower towards the enemy. An unequal battle ensued, the outcome of which was predetermined. Count Paskevich in a letter to the military minister describes the last minutes of the battle: “From among those who defended only 10 people, rushing with incredible fury at our soldiers, they wanted to open the path with weapons, but were raised to bayonets and only one of them was captured; Nevertheless, the remaining in the fortress, neglecting their lives, burned down.

" The total number of tower defenders in the village of Kola is called 30 people. The name of the captive Ossetian is not indicated, however.Some sources indicate that the run has died during the battle, others call it exactly the captured the tower defender. Such was a legend based on real events. And so, perhaps, the continuation of the history of Kochiev’s running, we find in the notes of the German traveler K.

Koch “Traveling through Russia to the Caucasian Isthmus”. Interest is represented by K. Koch's visit to the village of Dzau and the Cheselt gorge in the year, seven years after the events described. And the most interesting begins in K. Koch's testimonies during his stay in Dzau: “Prince Paulin presented me with a broad -shouldered strong Ossetian, his name was Beck. When General Rennenkampf was all devastated, the Big Lychha entered the Valley and, with the help of guns, turned Ossetians, Beck belonged to those few who did not want to hear anything about negotiations.

In one of the towers, nine Ossetians and among them Beck dared to resist the whole battalion; Only when the tower was overlaid and set on fire, five people died, and four were captured.

Bek was kept in the fortress in Gori until he managed to get rid of his shackles and escape. ” Without a doubt, K. Koch met in Ossetia it was Kochiev’s running, because hardly anyone would decide to appropriate his glory at that time. In particular, when witnesses of the events of those years were still alive. Well, the writing of Kokh named after Bek, instead of “running”, can be explained either by inaccurate translation from the German notes of the traveler in Germany, and only in Russia, or by the fact that K.

Koch himself wrote down the name in such a transcription. It is interesting that K. Koch was not too lazy to visit the village of Kola in the Chesulative Gorge, where historical events took place. Here, during a festive feast arranged in his honor, he was told about the defense of the tower and shown her ruins. And here the number of defenders was also named - nine. The number of defenders of 9 people, which is indicated by K.

Koch, is more like the truth. Direct witnesses of hostilities from the Russian side point to ten participants in the resistance may be rounded, stipulating that the rest were in the number of 20 burned in the tower. However, hardly anyone could want to disassemble the ruins of the tower after the battle and consider the dead. Rather, it was due to ordinary "military arithmetic." Indeed, as he could say the Russian Commander -in -Chief to say that he could not break the resistance of nine highlanders with an entire battalion and guns.

However, the conscience did not allow us to name the figure of more than thirty - in the tower, it was hardly possible to fit a larger number of armed people. But the inhabitants of the village of Kola, where events took place, undoubtedly knew not only the exact number of the defenders of the tower, but all of them by name. But the most interesting thing is that we learn from the notes of the German traveler, of course, that the run was exactly those who survived after the fall of the tower.

And with him four more comrades. Today it is difficult for us to understand this, but seven years after the military operations of Kochiev’s running, the head of the armed resistance, calmly lived in the Gorifier Gorge. It is possible that the tsarist administration decided to still have a run among, if not friends, then at least not among enemies. And she stopped all attempts to persecute the people's hero, thus, having supported her powerlessness to establish a new apartment in South Ossetia.

And the fact that even after the Rennenkampf expedition, the inhabitants of the Cheselt gorge still did not recognize the authorities of the tsarist administration, confirms K. Koch himself, noting that “the residents of the gorge-ed. Kulumbegov in the design of the material used the reproduction of the picture of G. Kotaev other news on the topic:.