[1] Throughout the winter and early spring, the imam drew the attention of Chechens, Salatavians and Dagestanis to the village of Arguani, foreseeing that the Russians would certainly move here, and managed to convince the highlanders to rally in order to prevent the further movement of the detachment.

The 4th battalion of the Apsheron Regiment, despite the well-aimed shots of the highlanders and the difficulties of the approach, rushed with bayonets and quickly broke into the fortification, hand-to-hand combat ensued.

In the right column of Colonel Labyntsev, two battalions (the 2nd Kabardian and the 2nd Kurinsky) rushed to the beam at a quick pace, descended into it and began to climb the steep ascent on all fours to the village itself, under deadly rifle fire from all the houses.

At the same time, the 1st Kurinsky battalion with difficulty made its way down the left side of the stream and rushed to the front blockages, from which the enemy hit the assault columns from the flank.

[1] A participant in the assault, Count Dmitry Milyutin recalled:[4] Here for the first time I got into the very dump; every step forward has cost us many sacrifices; the narrow path was still embarrassed by the many wounded and killed, both ours and the enemy.

However, ours nevertheless broke into the cemetery fence with the usual shout of “Hurrah” and began to climb onto the flat roofs of houses, from which the highlanders continued to shoot back.

Despite this, the murids remained for several hours in the house, sometimes they managed to break through their exits and hide through hidden messages from one sakli to another, but many bodies were found charred.

[1] By the end of the day, a significant part of Argvani still remained in the hands of the Murids, in particular, a tower of several tiers on the eastern tip of the village cost a bloody battle, where all the efforts of the assault teams were in vain.

By evening, they managed to drag two mountain and two Cossack guns into the village and put them on the roofs of the nearest houses in order to make a breach in the tower.

At night, the surviving murids began to leave Argvani, some of them engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the chains of rangers, others in the dark, by negligence, fell off the cliffs into a precipice.

"A gigantic battle, " Grabbe notes in his diary, "this thunderous blow will long be remembered in the mountains, hundreds of bodies converged in our hands, except for those taken away according to custom.

The losses incurred at Argvani forced Grabbe to turn to General E. Golovin with a request to send reinforcements from the Samur detachment (three battalions).