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"The Prisoner of the Caucasus" (Russian: Кавказский пленник, romanized: Kavkazsky plennik), also translated to "A Prisoner in the Caucausus", is an 1872 novella written by Leo Tolstoy. The story is based on a real incident in his life while he was serving in the Russian military.
The Prisoner of the Caucasus (Russian: «Кавказский пленник» Kavkázskiy plénnik), also translated as Captive of the Caucasus, is a narrative poem written by Alexander Pushkin in 1820–21 and published in 1822.
poem by Pushkin. Also known as: “Kavkazsky plennik” Learn about this topic in these articles: discussed in biography. In Aleksandr Pushkin: Exile in the south.
- Chapter 1. Zhilin in Captivity
- Chapter 2. Captured by The Highlanders. Letters Home
- Chapter 3: Zhilin's Life in The Aul
- Chapter 4. Escape Plan
- Chapter 5. Failed Escape
- Chapter 6. Zhilin's Escape. Kostylin's Ransom
An officer, Ivan Zhilin, was serving in the Caucasus. Zhilin received a letter from his mother asking him to come. She wrote that she was already old, that she wanted to see her son before he died, that she had found him a good bride. Zhilin decided to go. At that time there was war in the Caucasus, and it was impossible to pass by day or night: ei...
Zhilin hardly slept. Soon two highlanders, Abdul-Murat among them, came to him, began to say something in their own way, and in Russian they mouthed, "koroshourus!" Zhilin made it clear with his hands and lips that he was thirsty; they understood, called for Dina. Dina fetched water, squatted down, and began to examine Gillin. Then her father told ...
The captives lived in the barn for a month, while the highlanders waited for a ransom for them. Kostylin sent a second letter, but Zhilin wrote no more letters. They were fed poorly, with unleavened bread, or even with uncooked dough. Kostylin was bored and counted the days until the letter arrived. Zhilin kept snooping and prying, deciding how bes...
During the day Zhilin walked around the aul, making handicrafts, and at night he made a dig. He also scouted out which way to run to his own. When Abdul-Murat left, he ordered his young son to watch the prisoner. Telling the boy that he needed herbs to cure the highlanders, Zhilin climbed the mountain and memorized the area. He ventured to flee, fo...
The captives climbed out of the hole under the barn, but Kostylin caught a stone with his foot and it rattled. The owner's angry dog came running, followed by others. Zhilin had foreseen this, baiting the master's dog in advance. Having tamed it, the captives set off. But at that moment the people gathered at the mosque and Zhilin and Kostylin had ...
They lived there very badly: the stocks were not removed and they were fed with unbaked dough. It was stuffy, wet, and smelled in the pit. Kostylin felt very sick, and Zhilin was thinking how to get out of here. Suddenly a tortilla fell on Zhilin and cherries sprinkled - it was Dina. Zhilin molded figures of people, horses, and dogs from the clay i...
Prisoner of the Caucasus. STORY. DEDICATION. n. n. Rajewski. Accept with a smile, my friend, Muses free offerings: I dedicated you banished lyre singing. And inspired their leisure. When I died, innocent, cheerless, And whisper slanders listened to all sides, When the dagger of betrayal hladny, When love heavy sleep. I tortured and dead,
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15 apr 2015 · Alexander Pushkin’s poem Prisoner of the Caucasus romanticizes Caucasian-Russian cultural conflicts. In this both highly imaginative and erudite poem, Caucasian traditions and cross-cultural interactions are witnessed through the eyes of a Russian captive who is characterized more as a confined spectator than as a prisoner.
Serge Shavirin. It is shown that the chapters' arrangement of the novel "A Hero of Our Time" corresponds to the "five noble truths" of Dostoevsky. Disbelief is the main reason for the death of Pechorin. Biblical motives in the novel. Pechorin and the birth of a new life. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
