Video: 'The Caucasian War'

(Thursday, June 2, 1864; May 21, 1864, Old Style Calendar; during the Caucasian War) — After decades of scorched-earth warfare, leaders of the Circassians, a Muslim ethnic group in the Caucasus region, surrendered in Sochi today to the army of the Russian Empire, which proceeded to expel hundreds of thousands of Circassians.