1. Hadji Murad was an Avar commander who lived in the North Caucasus.
12 Facts About Hadji Murad
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Hadji Murad was foster-brother to Omar, son of Pakkou-Bekkhe, the Khanum of Khunzakh.
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Hadji Murad was involved in the murder of Hamzat Bek during a Friday prayer in 1834, in revenge for Gamzat's murdering of the Khanum of Khunzakh and her sons.
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Hadji Murad supported the Russians in their imperial ambitions for a while, to counter what he saw as the threat of Muridism in the North Caucasus.
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Hadji Murad surrendered to the Russians, who lionised but mistrusted him.
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Hadji Murad repeatedly asked to be given men and guns to attack Shamil and rescue his family, but received no firm reply.
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Hadji Murad was allowed to move from Tbilisi to the small Muslim town of Noukkha accompanied by a Cossack escort.
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Hadji Murad planned an escape, which he carried out on April 24,1852, during one of his morning rides.
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The Russians were joined by many tribesmen, including Akhmet Khan's son, and Hadji Murad was killed in the ensuing fight.
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Hadji Murad's severed head was finally sent to be kept at the Kunstkamera in St Petersburg.
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Leo Tolstoy's posthumously published novella Hadji Murad is a partially fictionalized account of Murad's struggle with the Russian Empire.
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Hadji Murad's image appears in My Dagestan, a novel of the Avar writer Rasul Gamzatov.