#hadjimurad

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Russian authorities promise to send Hadji Murad's skull to Dagestan

The administration of the Russian President has agreed that the Hadji Murad's skull should be transferred from the Museum of Saint Petersburg to Dagestan.

“To bury the skull, Dagestan will have to negotiate with Azerbaijan, and that may cause emotional discussions, historians suggest.” Dr. Levin

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Hadji Murad, now a national hero, is considered the William Wallace of the North Caucasus.

Hadji Murad was a former compatriot of Imam Shamil who, after a falling out, tried to ally with the Russians against him. That didn’t work out, he was killed by the Russians and later on, in the work of Leo Tolstoy, became a literary hero and a symbol of Russia’s wanton destruction in the Caucasus (they loved too much?). 

After his death, Hadji Murad’s head was *separated* from his body and kept in an ethnographic museum in Russia. (Sound familiar?) But now it seems there might be a reunion, but as always, reunions can be complicated...

Dr. Levin