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{{Short description|First prime minister of the Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus}}
{{more footnotes needed|date=May 2011}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Tapa Abdul Mejid Tchermoev
| office              = Prime Minister of the [[Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus]]
| predecessor         = Office Established
| successor           = [[Pshemakho Kotsev]]
| image               = Tapa Chermoyev.jpg
| caption             =
| birth_date          = 1882
| birth_place         = [[Grozny]], [[Chechnya]]
| death_date          = {{death date|1937|8|28|mf=y}}
| death_place         = [[Lausanne]], [[Switzerland]]
| spouse              = 1st wife - Princess Khavarsultan Khanum Ibrahimbeyova of Persia<br /> 2nd wife - Natasha Brailovsky né Kanelsky
| issue               = Marianne Bicat
| father              = General Ortsu Tchermoev
| mother              =
| termstart           = 11 May 1918
| termend             = December 1918
}}
'''Tapa (Abdul Medjid) Bey Ortsu Tchermoev'''{{efn|{{langx|ru|Тапа́ (Абду́л Меджи́д) Арцу́евич Чермо́ев|Tapá (Abdúl Medzhíd) Artsúevich Chermóyev}}; {{langx|ce|Тапа Абдул Миджит Бей Орцу Чермо́ев|Tapa Abdul Mijit Bey Ortsu Chermóev}}}} (1882 – August 28, 1937) was a North Caucasian statesman of [[Chechen people|Chechen]] origin, general, oil magnate and the first [[prime minister]] of the [[Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus]]. He was in office from 11 May 1918 until December 1918.<ref>«Союз горцев Северного Кавказа и Горская республика. История несостоявшегося государства. 1917-1920», М.М. Вачагаев, 2018</ref> His official title was ''General Tchermoeff, Prime Minister of the Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus''.{{Citation needed|date=March 2021}}
==Early life==
Born in [[Grozny]], [[Chechnya]], in 1882, Tapa was the eldest son of General [[Ortsu Tchermoev]] and belonged to the Biltoy [[teip]]. He was educated at the [[Vladikavkaz]] [[real school]] and at the {{ill|Nicholas Cavalry College|ru|Николаевское кавалерийское училище}} in [[St. Petersburg, Russia|St. Petersburg]]. He graduated in 1901 and joined an elite military unit, [[His Majesty's Own Cossack Escort]] of Tsar [[Nicholas II of Russia|Nicholas II]].
Tapa Tchermoev married Princess Khavarsultan Khanim Ibrahimbeyova of [[Qajar Iran|Persia]] in 1906.{{Citation needed|date=May 2007}} Although still a young man, he was obliged to leave the army in 1908 when his father died. During this time, he threw himself into economic and industrial activities. His family owned important parcels of oil-bearing land in the Grozny area. Tapa automatically became one of the most active and energetic pioneers of the Grozny oil industry.
[[World War I]] interrupted Tapa's economic activity. He joined the famous native [[Savage Division]] of the [[Imperial Russian Army]] with the rank of captain. In the war he proved himself a brilliant military leader and a fearless soldier. After the [[October Revolution]], Tapa returned to his native land with an intention to stem the rise of [[Bolshevism]] in Chechnya.
==The Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus==
[[Image:Leaders of the Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus.jpg|left|thumb|300px|Leaders of the MRNC with Tapa Tchermoeff front row centre.]]
Tapa believed the unifying of all [[Peoples of the Caucasus|Caucasian]] highlanders to be the only way of saving the [[Northern Caucasus]] from the [[Bolsheviks]]. On his initiative and thanks to his unrelenting energy, a convention of Caucasian highlanders took place in March 1917. This meeting resolved to form an independent highland state. On 11 May 1918 the Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus was officially established. Tapa was first the prime minister and then the minister for foreign affairs.
Early in March 1919, Tapa headed a delegation to Paris in an attempt to take part in the [[Treaty of Versailles]]. The object of the delegation was to secure the recognition of the independence of the Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus. A year later, the North Caucasus was in the hands of the Bolsheviks and in January 1921 the [[Soviet Mountain Republic]] of the [[Russian SFSR]] was established.
From his second marriage he had a daughter,  Marianne Bicat (March 27, 1921 - 1985).<ref>[https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?r=275615162:7285&d=bmd_1653949805 An entry from freebmd.org.uk database], from  GRO index vol. 19, p. 267</ref><ref>[https://archive.org/stream/NewsUK1985UKEnglish/Jun%2005%201985%2C%20The%20Times%2C%20%2362156%2C%20UK%20%28en%29_djvu.txt Full text of "The Times, 1985, UK, English"]</ref>
== Notes ==
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==References==
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* Baddeley, J. F., 1908, ''The Russian Conquest of the Caucasus'', Longmans, Green, and Co., London
* [[Madeleine Henrey|Henrey, Mrs Robert]], 1954, ''Madeleine Grown Up'', J. M. Dent & Sons, London
* Caucasian Republic Mission to the Peace Conference Appeal for Help, Friday 4 April 1919, ''The Morning Post'', London.
* Tapa Charmoyev's Obituary ''The Times'' written by Elti Temihan
* Storozhenko (Ed.), 1995, ''Ingushetia and Chechen Republic Map'', Northern Caucasian Aerogeodesic Company of Roskartografia, Russia.
==External links==
*[http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/JCS/Chechnya.htm Conflict in Chechnya: A Background Perspective]
*[https://www.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-229X.2006.00357.x Charlotte Aliston. The Suggested Basis for a Russian Federal Republic': Britain, Anti-Bolshevik Russia and the Border States at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919]
*[https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=9404524 ''Madeline Grown Up'' by Mrs Robert Henrey, 1952]
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