of the Caucasian Imamate, the transition of the Imam from Vedeno to Dagestan, the betrayals of the naibs of the Imam, the capture of Gunib, Shamil's journey from Dagestan to Kaluga and other details from Shamil's life outside the Caucasus. A large place in the book is devoted to various parables, poetry and admonitions to the inhabitants of Dagestan. Abdurrahman quickly learned Russian, writes and speaks it easily. According to academician Krachkovsky, Abdurrahman “significantly became Russified during his long stay in Kaluga”. In Tbilisi In 1866, Abdurahman's wife Nafisat fell ill and died suddenly. Having obtained permission from the authorities to bury his wife in her homeland in the village of Gimry, Abdurrahman no longer returns to Kaluga, but goes to Tbilisi, where he is enrolled in the Dagestan permanent police. There he finishes work on his second book Kitab tazkir – ("The book of memoirs of Sayyid Abdurrahman, son of Ustaz, Sheikh of the tariqat Jamaluddin al-Husayni about the affairs of the inhabitants of Dagestan and Chechnya. Composed and written in Tiflis in 1285 AH (1869)"). In his work, Abdurrahman describes in detail the life, way of life and customs of Dagestan and Chechnya. He gives unique information about the life of three Imams, about the structure of the Shamil's Imamate, describes the villages of Dagestan, their inhabitants, also tells in detail about the life and tragic death of the son of Imam Shamil Jamaluddin, about the decline of the Imams, the defense of Gunib and negotiations between Shamil and general Baryatinsky. In Dagestan In 1871, Abdurrahman entered the disposal of the head of the Dagestan region, with the appointment of a lifelong pension for him and moved first to Buynaksk, and from there to his native Gazikumukh. When, against the backdrop of the war in 1877, an uprising rises in Chechnya and Dagestan he does not support it and even participates in the pacification of the highlanders. Later, in 1883, he would write his last work: “The Fall of Dagestan and Chechnya due to the incitement of the Ottomans in 1877,” which academician Krachkovsky refers to as written “by direct order of the Russian authorities.” Further information about the life of Abdurrahman is rather abrupt. It is only known for certain that in 1891 he worked as a qadi in Gazikumukh, where he later died in 1901. See also Imam Shamil Caucasian Imamate History of Dagestan References Sources