 Russians troops with heavy artillery and other modern weaponry killed all the men, women and children, in a scene that a Circassian chronicler who had witnessed the events described as "a sea of blood".In a canyon near Sochi called "Qbaada" locally, the Circassian forces and some of their Abkhaz allies made their last stand against the Russian army in May 1864.The place was renamed "Krasnaya Polyana", meaning "red meadow" in Russian for all the blood that had been spilt there, when it was later resettled by ethnic Russians in 1869.