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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 poem is about a Byronic Russian officer who is disillusioned with elite life and decides to escape by seeking adventure in the Caucasus. He is captured by Circassian tribesmen but then saved by a beautiful Circassian woman.
Article History. Aleksandr Pushkin. In full: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin. Born: May 26 [June 6, New Style], 1799, Moscow, Russia. Died: January 29 [February 10], 1837, St. Petersburg (aged 37) Notable Works: “Boris Godunov” “Egyptian Nights” “Eugene Onegin” “Mozart and Salieri” “Ruslan and Lyudmila” “The Bridegroom” “The Bronze Horseman”
- 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...
Surrender, Caucasus: goes Ermolov! And smolknul fierce war cry, Everything is subject to Russian sword. Proud sons of the Caucasus, fought, you died horribly; But you did not save our blood, Neither enchanted armor, neither mountains, or dashing horses, Neither the wild love of liberty! Like the tribe of Batu, Change forefathers Caucasus,
Vladimir Makanin’s short story ”The Prisoner of the Caucasus” was published in 1995, dur-ing the first war in Chechnya, but it was written before the war. As for the title the story has three well-known predecessors in Russian literature: 19th-century classical works set in the Caucasus by Alexander Pushkin, Michail Lermontov and Leo Tolstoj.
The story’s title refers both to Rubachin and to the Caucasian that he takes prisoner on his way through the Caucasus to complete the task that he has been given, together with Vovka the rifleman. The Caucasian prisoner is a boy at the age of 16-17, with long, black curls, just like Lermontov’s Caucasian prisoner, Bela.
