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Hadji Murád's family had been removed to Vedenó soon after his desertion to the Russians, and were there kept under guard awaiting Shamil's decision. The women -- his old mother Patimát, and his two wives with their five little children -- were kept under guard in the sáklya of the officer Ibrahim Raschid; while Hadji Murád's son, Yusúf, a youth of eighteen, was put in prison -- that is, into a pit more than seven feet deep, together with seven criminals who like himself were awaiting a decision as to their fate.
The decision was delayed, because Shamil was away on a campaign against the Russians.