of mountain militia units. However, soon Ghazi Muhammad met his death in the village of Gimry, where one of the two survivors was still young (and not yet an Imam) Shamil. The new Imam was Gamzat-bek, who was a distant relative of Bakhu Bike. He lived quite calmly in Khunzakh with them. However, he made very tough demands to Bakhu Bike, among which was the introduction of Sharia law and the breaking of the alliance with the Russian Empire. She refused this, agreeing only to accept Sharia. Gamzat-bek pretended to be satisfied with this and as a sign of trust, he asked to give him one of the representatives of the khanate. To make the contract stronger Bakhu Bike gave her 8-year-old son Bulach. She calmed down but soon discovered the army of Gamzat-bek near the capital itself. Gamzat demanded to obey him and then her son Umma Khan wanting to save his young brother tried to enter the camp, but was captured. The book "History of Dagestan" cites a letter that Bakhu Bike sent to Imam Shamil to cause discord between him and Gamzat-bek. In the letter, she urged him to distract Gamzat from Khunzakh and then he received 2 thousand rubles as a reward, but Shamil did not hide the contents of the letter. Death Bakhu Bike sent her eldest son Nutsal immediately went to negotiate in Gamzat instead of gathering an army. But Nutsal was killed, as was Umma Khan, and the younger son of Bakhu Bike was also drowned in the river by murids. So the male branch of the Avar khans was killed. There are two versions of further developments. According to the first, Gamzat-bek entered Khunzakh and ordered the murids to kill her there with an ax or Gamzat first decided to deal with Surkhay Khan, an ally of the Russian Empire with the rank of colonel, who also had the right to rule in the Avar Khanate. He later took Bakha Bike to the village of Genichutl, where he later executed her. See also Umma Khan V Sultan Ahmed Khan Avar Khanate History of Dagestan References Sources Khalidov M. R.; Gamzatov, Gadzhi (2004). Oral folk art of the Avars. Institute of Language, Literature and Art named after Gamzat Tsadasa. pp. 71, 260. Mutieva, Oksana (2013). "Women in the social and political life of Dagestan (14th–19th centuries)". p. 49–52. ISSN 2410-3691. Shurpaev, Miyasat (2022-05-15).