Prisoner of the Caucasus

Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910)-Russian writer and philosopher, author of the world known throughout the world (“War and Peace”, “Anna Karenina”, “Resurrection”) Born in Yasnaya Polyana in a rich aristocratic family. L.N. Tolstoy is orphaned early. In 1837, he moved with his sister and three brothers to Moscow, where a distant relative T.A. was engaged in their upbringing. Ergol.
In 1851 he entered military service in the Caucasus, there he writes a lot there. In 1852, L.N. Tolstoy sent the manuscript of Childhood to the popular magazine Contemporary in those years. Editor of the magazine N.A. Nekrasov already praised the work of the young author. After the end of the Crimean War, L.N. Tolstoy left for St. Petersburg and immediately entered the Contemporary circle.
In 1872 L.N. Tolstoy wrote the story The Caucasian captive, telling about the Russian officer in captivity with the highlanders. In part, the work is based on the real story that happened to the writer in the Caucasus. Together with his friend Chechens, he drove away far from the detachment accompanying the convoy, and almost was captured. The clock fortress formidly saw that they were pursued by the highlanders, and raised the Cossacks on the alarm. The hero of the story, the officer Zhilin, is captured. He has a difficult relationship with the inhabitants of the aul, and only the kind girl Dina becomes his friend. True describing the details of the captivity of Zhilin, Tolstoy shows that war is evil, condemns interethnic discord and mutual hatred.
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