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Hadji Murat

Leo Tolstoy

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1912
Originally in
Originally in Russian
Pages
Pages 150

An Avar chieftain defects to the Russians because his own imam holds his family hostage, and is welcomed as a guest by the empire that spent thirty years trying to kill him. Both sides use him, and neither lets him go.

With what determination it defended itself, and how dearly it sold its life!
Hadji Murat, Leo Tolstoy

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