Prisoner of the Caucasus. 7th edition. Tolstoy L.N.

Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910)-Russian writer and philosopher, author of the world-famous works (“War and Peace”, “Anna Karenina”, “Resurrection”). Born in Yasnaya Polyana in a rich aristocratic family. L.N. Tolstoy is orphaned early. In 1837, he moved with his sister and three brothers to Moscow, where a distant relative of Ta was engaged in their upbringing. Ergolskaya.

In 1851 he entered military service in the Caucasus, there he writes a lot there. In 1852, L.N. Tolstoy sent the manuscript of "Childhood" to the popular magazine "Contemporary" in those years. Editor of the magazine N.A. Nekrasov already praised the work of the young author. After the end of the Crimean war, L.N. Tolstoy went to St. Petersburg and immediately entered the Contemporary circle.

in 1872 L.N. Tolstoy wrote the story "The Caucasian captive", telling about the Russian officer captured by the highlanders. In part, the work is based on the real story that happened to the writer in the Caucasus. Together with his friend Chechens, he drove away far from the detachment accompanying the convoy, and almost was captured. The clock fortress Grozny saw the highlanders pursuing them, and raised the Cossacks on the alarm. The hero of the story, the officer Zhilin, is captured. He has a difficult relationship with the inhabitants of the aul, and only the kind girl Dina becomes his friend. Truely describing the details of the captivity of Zhilin, Tolstoy shows that war is evil, condemns interethnic discord and mutual hatred.

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