Дамэлей.Dameley.Theatre and Drama Circassian .
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Channel: Marj Vindej · 2010 · Music
Theatre and Drama Circassian (Kabardian))( DAMELEY ) ДАМЭЛЕЙ In July, 1767, about 10 000 Circassian peasants led by Mamsyryko Damaley (Мамсырыкъуэ Дамэлей) leave there villages and flee into the mountains. A group of noblemen, both the pshi and the warqs, come to them to negotiate and promise to grant all their demands. The main demand of the rebelling peasantry was to revive their basic freedoms granted to the serfs by the Karatek agreements in early 1700s, which were to ease the social oppression. Russian emissaries, on their hand, tried to persuade the rebels not to trust the nobles promises and to resettle to the bank of the Kouma river, which marked the northern border of Kabardia. This would be a crucial blow at Kabardias economy and it would ruin its statehood.
