abstract:Hadji Murat (or alternatively Hadji Murad, although the first spelling better captures the original title in [Khadzhi-Murat]) is a short novel written by Leo Tolstoy from 1896 to 1904 and published posthumously in 1912 (though not in full until 1917). It is Tolstoy’s final work.
And then, indeed, there is a finehistoricalnovel, Hadji Murat - not a book easily bypassed by anyone seriously interested in Tolstoy's accomplishmentas awriter.