Hadji Murad

Hadji Murat, although the first spelling better captures the original title in Russian: was a short novel vvritten by Leo Tolstoy from 1896 to 1904 and published posthumousiy in 1912 (though not in full until 1917). İt is Tolstoy's final work. The protagonist is Hadji Murat, an Avar rebel commander who, for reasons of personal revenge, forges an uneasy alliance with the Russians he had been fighting.