Novella · 1896–1904
Hadji Murat
Хаджи-Мурат
A rebel commander caught between the Tsar and Imam Shamil, in a story Tolstoy kept for his last years.
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Based on a real figure, it follows Hadji Murat, an Avar commander in the Caucasus who, caught between the imam Shamil and the Russian Tsar Nicholas I, defects to the Russians and is hunted down.
Tolstoy worked on it in his last years, returning to the Caucasus of his youth. It was published only after his death, in 1912.
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