Today members of the Russian PEN club are marking the upcoming 100th anniversary of the death of the Russian literary classic Leo Tolstoy with the opening of the Khadzhi Murat Stone.
The memorial is in the Tolstoy’s so-called “Pirogovo estates” some 40 kilometers from the writer’s famous Yasnaya Polyana museum. Because it was at Pirogovo that the idea of writing a story about one of the best-known leaders of Caucasus mountaineers’ resistance to the Russian expansion south first crossed Tolstoy’s mind. Initially a sworn enemy of Russia, Khadzhi Murat then became its best friend only to become an enemy again and ruthlessly destroyed. For Tolstoy, Khadzhi Murat is an epitome of selfless courage and perseverance.
The Russian PEN Club’s president Andrei Bitov says that the Khadzhi Murat Stone is a monument to both a literary work and a historical prototype, a person who really lived and fought in the mid-19th century.
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Twilight on the Caucasus
by S. Z. Ahmed
This book cites 10 books:
The Sabres of Paradise by Lesley Blanch
The Russian Conquest of the Caucasus by JOHN BADDELEY
The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
Russia Confronts Chechnya : Roots of a Separatist Conflict by John B. Dunlop
Twilight on the Caucasus by S. Z. Ahmed
Warriors of the Steppe: A Military History of Central Asia, 500 B.C. to A.D. 1700 by Erik Hildinger
Russian Literature and Empire : Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature) by Susan Layton
Allah's Mountains : Politics and War in the Russian Caucasus by Sebastian Smith
The Making of the Georgian Nation by Ronald Grigor Suny
A Captive of the Caucasus by Andrei Bitov
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