Circassian men were also exalted for their beauty , manliness and bravery in Western Europe , in a way Caucasus historian Charles King calls " homoerotic " . In Scotland , in 1862 , Circassian chiefs arrived to advocate their cause against Russia and to persuade Britain to stop the actions of the Russian army at that time , and upon the arrival of two Circassian leaders , Hadji Hayder Hassan and Kustan Ogli Ismael , the '' Dundee Advertiser '' reported that " the Chiefs are two remarkable looking men . Their imposing bearing , their romantic dress ... and their natural dignity of mien , stamp them as very superior ... Raven haired , black-bearded , broad-browed , with wide springing eyebrows of sooty black ... these bronzed and armed children of the mountains tend to put us out of love with our own specimens of men , and suggests thoughts not complementary to the types of manhood which , in this country , they are surrounded . " During the 19th century , various Western intellectuals offered pseudoscientific explanations for the light complexion present among Circassians . The doctor of medicine Hugh Williamson , a signatory to the United States Constitution , argued that the reason for the extreme whiteness of the Circassian and coastal Celto-Germanic peoples can be explained by the geographical location of these folks ' ancestral homelands which lie in high latitudes ranging from 45 ° to 55 ° N near a sea or ocean where Westerlies prevail from the west towards the east
actions of the Russian army at that time
Circassian genocide
Circassian beauties