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An edition of Hadji-Mourad (1900)

Hadji Mourad

illustrated
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In this short novel, Tolstoy fictionalizes the final days of Hadji Murád, a legendary Avar separatist who fought against, and later with, Russia, as the Russian Empire was struggling to annex Chechnya and the surrounding land in the late 1840s.

The novel opens with the narrator finding a thistle crushed in a blooming field, which reminds him of Hadji Murád and his tragic tale. As the narrator recounts the story, the reader is quickly thrust into the rich, colorful history of the Caucuses, and its people’s fight against Russian imperialism.

Hadji Murád is portrayed as a legendary and imposing, yet friendly and approachable figure. Despite his reputation, it seems that his best days are behind him; as the novel opens, Murád is fleeing Shamil, a powerful imam who has captured Murád’s family. Murád finds himself thrust between the invading Russians on one side, and Shamil’s vengeance on the other.

As Murád and his tiny but loyal group of warriors try to forge alliances in their attempt to rescue Murád’s family, they quickly find themselves politically outclassed. The Russians are Murád’s enemies, yet only they can help him in his struggle against Shamil; and after years of losses incurred by Murád’s guerrilla tactics, the Russians would like his help but cannot trust him. Shamil, on the other hand, is a deep link to the region’s complex web of tribal blood feuds, vengeances, reprisals, and quarrels over honor. He’s one of the few powers left standing between the Russians and their control of the Caucuses, but Murád, having crossed him, can’t rescue his family from Shamil’s clutches without the help of the Russians.

Murád’s impossible position, the contradiction between his legendary past and his limping, dignified, and ultimately powerless present, and the struggle against a mighty empire by a people torn by internecine conflict, form the major thematic threads of the novel.

The novel was one of the last that Tolstoy finished before his death, and was only published posthumously in 1912. Tolstoy himself served in the Crimean War, and the war scenes portrayed in the novel echo his personal experiences. As the story progresses, Tolstoy characterizes various real-life historical personalities besides Hadji Murád and Shamil, including Emperor Nicholas I, Mikhail Loris-Melikov, and Count Vorontsov-Dashkov, making this a fascinating piece of historical fiction. Despite this being such a late entry in Tolstoy’s corpus, it has been highly praised by critics both contemporary and modern, with the famous critic Harold Bloom going so far as to say that Hadji Murád is “my personal touchstone for the sublime of prose fiction, to me the best story in the world, or at least the best I have ever read.”

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Hadji Murad
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2011, Oneworld Classics
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Hadji Murad
2009, ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited
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Hadji Murád
2009, Dover Publications, Inc.
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Hadji Murád
2009, Dover Publications, Inc.
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Hadji Murad
2009, Barnes & Noble
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Hadji Murád
2009, Dover Publications, Inc.
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2007, Filiquarian Pub.
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2003-01-01, HESPERUS PRESS, Hesperus Press
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Hadji Murád
2003, Modern Library
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Hadji Murat (Hesperus Classics)
February 1, 2003, Hesperus Press
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Hadji-Mourat
May 19, 1998, Climats
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Hadži Murat
1996, Paseka
in Czech - V tomto překl. vyd. 1.
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Hadji Mourad
1995, EJL
in French
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Khadzhi-Murat
1986, Izokombinat "Khudozhnik RSFSR"
in Russian
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Хаджи-Мурат: Повести
1980, Художественная литература
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Qaji mu̇rat
1980, Ȯbu̇r Mongġul-un Surġan Ku̇mu̇jil-u̇n Keblel-u̇n Qoriy-a
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Khadzhi-Murat
1965, Khudozh. lit-ra
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Khadzhi-Murat
1965, Khudozh. lit.
in Russian
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Khadzhi-Murat
1965, Khudozh. lit.
in Russian
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Khadzhi-Murat.
1965, Khudozh. Lit-ra
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Hadji Murat: a tale of the Caucasus.
1965, McGraw-Hill
in English
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Hadji Murat: a tale of the Caucasus.
1962, Heinemann
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Khadzhi-Murat
1962, Gos. izd-vo detskoĭ lit-ry, Ministerstva prosveshchenii︠a︡ RSFSR
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Hadji Murat: a tale of the Caucasus
1962, Heinemann
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Khadzhi-Murat
1962, Gos. izd-vo detskoĭ lit-ry, Ministerstva prosveshchenii︠a︡ RSFSR
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Khadzhi Murat
1945, Gos. izd-vo Detskoi Literatury
in Russian
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Khadzhi-Murat
1938, Gos. izd-vo "Khudozh. lit-ra"
in Russian
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Hadji-Mourad
1925, Éditions de la Pléiade
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Hadji Murád
1912, Dodd, Mead
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Hadji Murád.
1912, Dodd, Mead
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Hadji Murád: and other stories
1912, Thomas Nelson
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Chadschi Murat: Roman
1900, G. Fischer
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Khadzhi-Murat
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Khadzhi-Murat: roman
Publish date unknown, J. Ladyschnikow Verlag
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149
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ISBN 13
9781973322993

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