Russian Literature and Empire Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy

The first book to provide a synthesising study of Russian writing about the Caucasus during the nineteenth-century age of empire-building. From Pushkin's ambivalent portrayal of an alpine Circassia to Tolstoy's condemnation of tsarist aggression against Muslim tribes in Hadji Murat, the literary analysis is firmly set in its historical context, and the responses of the Russian readership too receive extensive attention.Layton, Susan is the author of 'Russian Literature and Empire Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy' with ISBN 9780521444439 and ISBN 0521444438.