Hadji Murad

Hadji Murad (or alternatively Hadji Murat, although the first spelling best captures the phoneme of the original language title in Russian: [Khadzhi-Murat]) was a short novel written by Leo Tolstoy from 1896-1904 and published after his death in the year 1912. It is Tolstoy’s final work. The subject matter is one Hadji Murat, an Avar rebel commander who, for reasons of personal revenge, forges an uneasy alliance with the Russians he had been fighting.

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