In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army
and travelled to the Caucasus as a soldier. The four years that
followed were among the most significant in his life, and deeply
influenced the stories collected here. Begun in 1852 but unfinished
for a decade, The Cossacks describes the experiences of Olenin, a
young cultured Russian who comes to despise civilization after
spending time with the wild Cossack people. Sevastopol Sketches,
based on Tolstoy's own experiences of the siege of Sevastopol in
1854-55, is a compelling consideration of the nature of war, while
Hadji Murat, written towards the end of his life, returns to the
Caucasus of Tolstoy's youth to explore the life of a great leader
torn apart by a conflict of loyalties. Written at the end of the
nineteenth century, it is amongst the last and greatest of
Tolstoy's shorter works.
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