Book Details
⚡️Book Title : Hadji Murad
⚡Book Author : Leo Tolstoy
⚡Page : 153 pages
⚡Published November 8th 2006 by Cosimo Classics (first published 1912)
Hadji Murad - In 1851 Leo Tolstoy enlisted in the Russian army and was sent to the Caucasus to help defeat the Chechens. During this war a great Avar chieftain, Hadji Murd, broke with the Chechen leader Shamil and fled to the Russians for safety. Months later, while attempting to rescue his family from Shamils prison, Hadji Murd was pursued by those he had betrayed and, after fighting the most heroic battle of his life, was killed. Tolstoy, witness to many of the events leading to Hadji Murds death, set down this story with painstaking accuracy to preserve for future generations the horror, nobility, and destruction inherent in war.
Hadji Murad
In 1851 Leo Tolstoy enlisted in the Russian army and was sent to the Caucasus to help defeat the Chechens. During this war a great Avar chieftain, Hadji Murd, broke with the Chechen leader Shamil and fled to the Russians for safety. Months later, while attempting to rescue his family from Shamils prison, Hadji Murd was pursued by those he had betrayed and, after fighting the most heroic battle of his life, was killed. Tolstoy, witness to many of the events leading to Hadji Murds death, set down this story with painstaking accuracy to preserve for future generations the horror, nobility, and destruction inherent in war.
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