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The story is based on a real incident in his life while he was serving in the Russian military. [1] It is about two soldiers kidnapped by their rivals for ransom who were in custody for some time. They tried to escape twice, were caught the first time, but succeeded the second. The novella was acclaimed for its view of humanity in the face of ...
In 1862 Lapinski published a book, Mountain people of Caucasus and their struggle for freedom against Russia (originally in German, Die Bergvölker des Kaukasus und ihr Freiheitskampf), which is considered one of the early sources on ethnography of peoples of the Northern Caucasus and also contains considerable information on Russia-Georgian relations.
The Prisoner of the Caucasus (Russian: Кавка́зский пле́нник Kavkázskiy plénnik), [a] also translated as Captive of the Caucasus, is a narrative poem written by Alexander Pushkin in 1820–21 and published in 1822.
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"The Prisoner of the Caucasus" (story), an 1872 novella by Leo Tolstoy Prisoner of the Mountains , a 1996 Russian film based on Tolstoy's novella The Prisoner of the Caucasus , a variant translation for Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (Кавказская пленница, или Новые приключения Шурика, translit.
Caucasia (1998) is the first novel written by American author Danzy Senna.It is the coming-of-age story of two multiracial girls, Birdie Lee and her sister Cole, who have a Caucasian mother and an African-American father.
The Prisoner in the Caucasus was originally a more pro-Russian story. Bodrov, in adapting the original narrative for the movie, sought to make it more universal and appealing to a broader audience. Bodrov was inspired by the story since childhood and aimed to add depth by focusing more on a second soldier, a character less emphasized in the ...
Joseph (Joe) Hayes (born November 12, 1945) [1] is an American author and teller of stories mainly found in the folklore of the American Southwest. [2] [3] Hayes was an early pioneer of bilingual Spanish/English storytelling. [3] [4] [5] Joe currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. [6]