Hadji Murad

Hadji Murad by Lev Tolstoy

In 1851 Lev Tolstoy enrolled in the Russian armed force and was sent to the Caucasus to help rout the Chechens. During this war an extraordinary Avar clan leader, Hadji Murad, broke with the Chechen head Shamil and fled to the Russians for security. Months after the fact, while endeavoring to safeguard his family from Shamil's jail, Hadji Murad was sought after by those he had sold out and, subsequent to facing the most brave conflict of his life, was killed. 

Tolstoy, observer to a large number of the occasions prompting Hadji Murad's demise, set down this story with careful precision to safeguard for people in the future the frightfulness, honorability, and obliteration inalienable in war