Hadji Murat (novella)

Hadji Murat
The house of Prince Semyon Vorontsov, illustration by Eugene Lanceray
AuthorLeo Tolstoy
Original titleХаджи-Муратъ (Khadzhi-Murat)
TranslatorAylmer Maude (1912)
LanguageRussian
GenreHistorical fiction
Publication date
1912 (abridged) 1917 (unabridged) (posthumously)
Publication placeRussia
Media typePrint
Pages192 pp (hardback)
ISBN978-1-84749-179-4
Original text
Хаджи-Муратъ (Khadzhi-Murat) at Russian Wikisource
TranslationHadji Murat at Wikisource

Hadji Murat, also written Hadji Murad (Russian: Хаджи-Мурат, romanizedKhadzhi-Murat)[a] is a novella written by Leo Tolstoy from 1896 to 1904 and published posthumously in 1912 (though not in full until 1917). Its titular protagonist Hadji Murat is an Avar rebel commander who, for reasons of personal revenge, forges an uneasy alliance with the Russians he has been fighting.[1]


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  1. ^ Pevear, Richard; Volokhonsky, Larissa (18 March 2010). "Tolstoy's Stories". HuffPost. Retrieved 10 November 2019.

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