Some twenty-five hundred regular Russian troops under…
September 1841 CE
By late September Guria is again calm and under the Russian control, but the government makes no further effort to collect taxes in cash or cultivate potatoes.
By 1842, most arrested rebel leaders will be released, except Prince Ambako Shalikashvili, who is banished to Siberia.
According to a Russian source published in 1901, the Russian losses in the rebellion were at least thirty-two killed, one hundred and fifteen wounded, and seventeencaptured.
The rebellion will be described by the peasant writer Egnate Ninoshvili (1859–1894) in his historical novel, The Revolt in Guria, which will be brought to the screen by the pioneering Georgian film director Alexander Tsutsunava in 1928.
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