That Black, Dragon-Haunted Pass: The Mystery of Lermontov’s Caucasus
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By Tara Isabella Burton “I was traveling along the military road back from Tiflis.” So begins Mikhail Lermontov’s 1833 A Hero of Our Time, the classic novel of the Caucasus:…
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