- Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, Muslims, Civil war
<p>In this short novel, <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/leo-tolstoy">Tolstoy</a> fictionalizes the final days of Hadji Murád, a legendary Avar separatist who fought against, and later with, Russia, as the Russian Empire was struggling to annex Chechnya and the surrounding land in the late 1840s.</p> <p>The novel opens with the narrator finding a thistle crushed in a blooming field, which reminds him of Hadji Murád and his tragic tale.
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- Author
- Лев Толстой
- First published
- 1900
- Pages
- 167
- Publisher
- Ediciones Catedra, HESPERUS PRESS, Gos. izd-vo detskoĭ lit-ry, Ministerstva prosveshchenii︠a︡ RSFSR
- Editions
- 68
- Language
- Italian, Portuguese, mon, German
- ISBN
- 9781515138259
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Лев Николаевич Толстой (9 сентября 1828 – 20 ноября 1910) – русский писатель. Он считается одним из величайших и самых влиятельных авторов всех времён. Среди наиболее известных произведений Толстого – романы «Война и мир» (1869) и «Анна Каренина» (1878), которые часто называют вершинами реалистической прозы и двумя величайшими книгами всех времён. ---------- Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой, 9 September 1828 – 20 November 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors of all time. Tolstoy's notable works include the novels *War and Peace* (1869) and *Anna Karenina* (1878),
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