Reading Hadji Murád | Alexandria
Read Hadji Murád by Leo Tolstoy. Blending honor with savagery, Tolstoy's final masterpiece exposes the paradox of noble violence through a Chechen warrior's fatal choice. By painting Hadji Murád's defection as both heroic and futile, Tolstoy shatters our binary view of loyalty, revealing how principles that seem righteous often seed their own destruction.