Jan 25, 2019
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