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This is a most interesting topic:Their beauty is still known in many cultures where Circassian people immigrated and live since then. Poems and songs were written about the Beauty of Circassian women in countries such as Turkey, Jordan and Syria and the term "Circassian beauty" is still used in countries where people of Circassian origin still live.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circassian_beauties
Myths from the Forests of Circassia
Two myths from the Circassians of the Caucasus Mountains offer detailed insights into the ancient veneration of trees and sacred groves.
In the southernmost part of European Russia, near the border of the Soviet Union with Turkey and Iran rise the highest mountains in Europe, the mighty massif of the Caucasus. In the complex topography of this region live many tribes and ethnic groups, most of whom speak languages unrelated to any others on earth. One of these groups with a distinctive language is that of the Circassians. Famed for the beauty of their women and the bravery of their men, as well as for the bewildering complexity of their language, their homeland from remotest antiquity has been the north-west region of the Caucasus,(though today many live outside the Soviet Union). In the Caucasus they have pursued a horse-breeding, pastoralist way of life on the plains abutting the mountains and a life of animal-husbandry, farming, hunting and metal-working higher in the foothills. These same foothills with their dark gorges, many of which have never been penetrated by man, are covered by dense forests of hardwoods, conifers and undergrowth, such as rhododendron, watered by rains carried from the west off the Black Sea. While today the majority of Circassians are Sunni Moslems, they still preserve heroic myth-like myths, called Nart sagas, two of which reflect older practices of venerating trees and forests. Given the nature of their homeland, and the wide Eurasian traces of tree worship (for example, the English word 'true' is ultimately derived from the same root as that for 'tree'), these myths are not in themselves surprising. The rich insights that these myths provide into cultic practices surrounding trees and groves, however, are astounding. Here, with the help of my Circassian friend, Hisa Torkacho of Hillside, New Jersey, I present translations of two of the more interesting tree and forest myths. The first is from the collection of Circassian Nart sagas by the Soviet scholar Asker Hadaghat'la. The second was collected by Mr. Torkacho himself.
http://www.circassianworld.com/colarusso_3.html
http://www.geocities.com/rainforest/canopy/2317/
The Circassians are a Muslim people, whose Russian name is Cherkess and whose native name is Adygey. They are now officially classified as three peoples: the Kabarda, in the Kabardino-Balkar Republic; the Circassians or Cherkess, in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic; and the Adygey, in the Adygey Republic. The term Circassian has sometimes been incorrectly applied to all the mountain peoples of the N Caucasus. Known in antiquity, they inhabited the western side of the Caucasus and the Crimea and were known to the Greeks as the Zyukhoy. They were Christianized in the 6th cent. AD but adopted Islam in the 17th cent. after coming under the rule of the Ottoman Empire. In 1829 the Ottoman Turks were forced to cede Circassia to Russia. At this time the Circassians occupied almost the entire area between the main Caucasian range, the Kuban River, and the Black Sea. In the many Russo-Turkish wars in the first half of the 19th cent., the Circassians bitterly fought the Russians. After the Russian conquest of the area, about 400,000 Circassians migrated to Turkey (1861-64). Circassian women were reputed to be great beauties, and many were sold into slavery in Turkey. There are today large Circassian groups in Turkey, Syria, and Jordan.
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