Prisoner of the Caucasus. Haji Murat. Stories and stories. Tolstoy L.N.

The book contains the stories and stories of Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828 - 1910) about the life of the army, the Caucasus and military operations, as the basis of which he took his own experience.

He spent 4 years in military service and was awarded the Order "For the Defense of Sevastopol." He reflected the horrors that fell to the defense of the city’s defenders in Sevastopol stories, read everywhere and reached Alexander II.

The emperor was so impressed that he ordered them to translate them into French and publish them in the Lege Nord newspaper, which was read on the opposing side.

The story “Caucasian captive” was written for “ABC” and first published in 1872. Tolstoy himself highly appreciated this story as “an example of the techniques and the language that I write and write for large ones.” Caucasian war.

also included stories: “Two Hussars”, “Decembrists”, “Cossacks” and others.