«The hero of my tale, whom I love with all my heart and soul, whom I have tried to depict in all his beauty, and who always was, is and will be beautiful — is Truth». The years 1851 to 1854 that Tolstoy spent in the Caucasus and the action he saw there as an officer in the Russian Army are reflected in his novella The Cossacks (1853−1862). In this work, completed in 1862, he shares with us his inmost thoughts about the true value of human life, the goodness of the common man, and the hypocrisy of aristocratic society, which his central character, Olenin, rejects. The story A Prisoner in the Caucasus is basrd on the events of the Caucasian War of 1817−1864, waged by tsarist Russia against the hillsmen of Daghestan and Chechnia. War, according to Tolstoy, sets people apart and against each other, while human nature dictates the opposite. War is out of harmony with the «pacifying beauty and power» of nature, which is eternally alive and beautiful.
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