The head of the legendary Caucasian rebel, cut off almost 180 years ago excites modern Russia. The authorities are trying to decide where to bury the skull - in a museum or a grave.Probably Lev Tolstoy, watching how the hero of his story "Hadji Murad" persecutes and torments Russia after almost two centuries, is smiling somewhere. Murat was a formidable warrior, whose name Tolstoy immortalized in his classic work, condemning cruel subjugation of...

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