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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.
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.
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.
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.
Written during his exile to the southern reaches of the Russian Empire, Alexander Pushkin's The Prisoner of the Caucasus centers on a Russian officer in the mold of a Byronic hero who rejects fashionable society and embarks on an adventure to the Caucasus.
