The Prisoners of the Caucasus
| Author | Xavier de Maistre |
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| Country | Paris, Kingdom of France |
| Language | French |
| Genre | Novella |
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1825 |
The Prisoners of the Caucasus (French: Les Prisonniers du Caucase) is a 1825 novella by Xavier de Maistre.
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History
The Prisoners of the Caucasus was based upon a real story communicated to De Maistre by a Russian military officer. The story had been previously told by Frederika von Freygang (1791–1863), wife of the diplomat Wilhelm von Freygang,[1] in her book Letters on the Caucasus and Georgia (1816).[2]
Tolstoy's 1872 novella "The Prisoner of the Caucasus" was based on De Maistre's tale.[3][4][5]
Synopsis
In The Prisoners of the Caucasus De Maistre relates the vicissitudes of the captivity of Major Kascambo. Kascambo, a Russian officer, has fallen, with his servant, into an ambush in the hands of a tribe of Caucasian mountaineers. After a great many hardships and some pusillanimity on the officer's part, and the display of great courage, ingenuity, and presence of mind on the part of his servant, Kascambo is restored safely to his friends.
See also
Editions
Translations into English
- "The Prisoners of Caucasus." In: Russian Tales (1826; anonymously translated)
- "The Prisoners in the Caucasus," The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions and Politics, Vol. VIII (1826; anonymously translated)
- "The Prisoners of the Caucasus," The New Monthly Belle Assemblée, Vol. V (1836; anonymously translated)
- "The Prisoners of Mount Caucasus," Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, Vol. IX (1840; anonymously translated)
- "The Prisoners of the Caucasus," North Carolina University Magazine, Vol. I (1852; anonymously translated)
- "The Prisoners of the Caucasus," New Monthly Magazine, Vol. XIII, No. 78 (1878; translated by W. T. Greene)
Notes
Footnotes
Citations
- ↑ Wurzbach, Constantin von (1865). "Kudriaffsky, Friederike." In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich. 13. Wien: Kaiserlich-königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, p. 307.
- ↑ Freygang, Frederika von (1816). Lettres sur le Caucase et la Géorgie. Suivies d'une relation d'un voyage en Perse en 1812. Hambourg: Perthes & Besser.
- ↑ Lonnquist, Barbara (2007). "Tolstoy Rewriting the Caucasus," Tolstoy Studies Journal, Vol. XIX, pp. 75–79.
- ↑ Beaujour, Elizabeth Klosty (2008). "Reply to Barbara Lonnqvist's Research Note, 'Tolstoy Rewriting the Caucasus,'" Tolstoy Studies Journal, Vol. XX, pp. 61–69.
- ↑ Lonnquist, Barbara (2012). "Réapprendre à écrire: l'Abécedaire de Tolstoï d'un point de vue historique et littéraire." In: Catherine Depretto, ed., Un Autre Tolstoï. Paris: Institut d’études slaves.
References
- Berthier, Alfred (1918). Xavier de Maistre: étude biographique et littéraire. Paris: Emmanuel Vitte.
- George, Albert J. (1964). Short Fiction in France, 1800-1850. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press.
- Lombard, Charles M. (1977). Xavier de Maistre. Boston: Twayne Publishers.
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