Bakhu Bike I or Pahu Bike (1834—1834) was the daughter of Umma Khan V and the wife of Sultan Ahmed Khan. She was one of the very few women known to have had influence over the affairs of the state in the Avar Khanate. Biography Early years She was born in the village of Khunzakh in the family of Umma Khan V of Avar and his wife Khistaman. Soon, Bakhu Bike married Sultan Ahmed, a nobleman from the clan of shamkhals of Tarki. Her father had no sons and when there were no pretenders to rule after his death in 1801, Bakhu Bike convinced the nobility to support her husband. In 1823, her husband Sultan Ahmed died. Their children were still very young and therefore Bakhu Bike was forced to take over the government. Unlike her father, she did not seek to unleash wars continued her course for Russian citizenship, successfully defended the khanate from the murids, and preferred to resolve controversial cases by advantageous marriages for which she was often credited with intrigue. Relations with Imams Bakhu Bike successfully married her son Nutsal to the daughter of shamkhal of Tarki, and the daughter Sultanat wanted to marry his son, hoping that she could increase the lands of Avaria at the expense of new relatives. However, there were many suitors for marriage with her daughter, and because of this, the Avar Khanate was left without its old ally in the fight against the murids. In 1830, Bakhu Bike came out openly against the murids of Ghazi Muhammad. Seeing a huge column of murids in the amount of 8.000 people, the Khunzakh people fell into a panic. But then Bakhu Bike appeared with a saber in her hands and shouted: “If you are afraid, give us women your swords and hide behind our skirts. The people of Khunzakh rushed at the enemy in a rage and Ghazi Muhammad had to retreat. For this victory, Nicholas I of Russia granted the Avar Khanate a banner with the coat of arms of Russia and a cutout for a dress for Bakhu Bike. The weakening of the positions of the Avar Khanate immediately interested again Imam Ghazi Muhammad. Bakhu Bike foresaw this and contacted the Russian command in Tbilisi. But the Russian troops themselves were firmly bogged down in the fight against Muridism, so the command provided only solid financial assistance for the formation