Prisoner of the Caucasus. Tolstoy L.

Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) was born in the estate of Yasnaya Polyana. His father, Count N.I. Tolstoy, was a member of the Patriotic War of 1812. Mother belonged to the genus of the princes of the Bolkonsky. Lev Nikolaevich early orphaned: his mother died when he was two years old, and then he lost his father. With his sister and three brothers, Tolstoy moved to Kazan to the aunt, which became his guardianship. Here, in Kazan, he entered the university, and then, carried away by writing, returned to Moscow. Soon Tolstoy went to the Caucasus and entered the army junker. The story "Caucasian captive" is partly based on real events. Once Tolstoy and his friend followed with a column of three companies of soldiers into the formid of Grozny (now the city of Grozny). Lev Nikolaevich drove far from his detachment and almost was captured. His friend, a Chechen Sado, who had an unchargled gun, helped out, but he pretended to be aiming at the pursuers, and shouted at them. When they began to be overtaken, Tolstoy could easily leave for his horse, but did not want to throw a friend of Sado. They both managed to get to the Cossack picket. The story “Caucasian captive” tells about the difficult relations of highlanders with Russian prisoners of war, about the touching friendship of a good and responsive Tatar girl and a brave Russian officer who managed to escape from captivity. The collection also included the stories “Shark”, “Jump” and “Hunting more than captivity”. For children of secondary school age.