[5] When the Gandaloev family had to feed a Russian bailiff, Sulumbek made fun of him by eating the whole lunch by himself.

As a result, the bailiff decided to punish Sulumbek and began to write false denunciations against him to his superiors.

Sulumbek could not stand it and one day, meeting a bailiff outside the village, he whipped him, for which he was immediately arrested and convicted.

Their acquaintance was described in the romance of Magomet Mamakaev, Zelimkhan as follows:[5] Don't despair, my friend – an abrek from Sagopshi, who had been sitting here for a long time, once told him [Zelimkhan] – let's better think together about how to get free – we need an underground passage.After his escape, Sulumbek killed the bailiff and, from that moment he became an abrek.

He led series of raids in Nalchiksky and Vladikavkazsky okrugs, during which, he engaged in skirmishes with the Cossacks and Russian Military units.

[1] Sulumbek's comrade Zelimkhan received an insulting letter from Verbitsky,[8] former ataman of the Kizlyarsky otdel.

[9] Because of that as well as in retaliation for the shooting of Chechens at the Gudermes bazaar and for the ruin of the Ingush village, Tsorkh, he decided to kill him.

The Russian newspaper Kavkazskaya Kopeyka described the last minutes of Sulumbek's life:[4] At the sight of the gallows and in general the whole gloomy, ominous situation, speaking of the inevitable proximity of the fatal end, Garavodzhev, as eyewitnesses say, retained a rare outward calm and self-control, and some kind of mysterious, either sarcastic or contemptuous smile was always playing on his thin lips [...] Then he calmly, without haste and without showing the slightest emotion at all, climbed onto the fatal platform and, when the executioner threw a noose around his neck, he himself slid off the stool [...] The last wish of this Zelimkhanovite was that his hands would not be tied and a shroud bag would not be put on him.

But, of course, he was denied this.According to historian Petimat Akieva, the death of Sulumbek carried "the nature of political protest and struggle against power", which gave "[a]breks in the eyes of the people [...] an aura of national heroes".

[15] In the same year, A. Sakharov's published collection "Legends and Tales of the Ingush Mountains" included a poem by the author dedicated to Sulumbek.

In addition to courage, Sulumbek was distinguished by extraordinary willpower, the ability to not get lost in moments of danger and, most importantly, mercilessness.