21 agos 1916 anni - Uprising of 21 August 1916

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On the morning of 8 August 1916, Lieutenant Colonel F. G. Rymshevich, the head of Pishpek district, received a message from the Pishpek post office. It reported that the mail, which had been on its way to Przheval’sk containing a large sum of money, had been seized by the Kyrgyz.10 Upon arriving in Toqmaq, Rymshevich learned that the disturbances had begun when the Kyrgyz of Atake and Sarybaghysh volost’ received a secret message from Vernyi district signalling the beginning of the uprising.11 In the succeeding days, crowds of Kyrgyz from across Pishpek district attacked Russian settlements and postal stations. Russian cavalry fended off their attacks as best they could, but they were too few to deflect the attacks effectively. During the first days of the uprising, Rymshevich had only twenty-six cavalrymen with which to face attacks by hundreds of Kyrgyz.12 Caught off-guard and completely unprepared for the uprising, the Imperial administration at first lost quite a few soldiers. A number of peasant settlers were also either killed, or else captured and led away to the mountainous areas near Naryn and Kochkor. Collapsing p291

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