Hadji Murat

The MediaBook studio presents an audiobook by one of the greatest novelists in the world—excommunicated from the church for his beliefs. A corresponding member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, an honorary academician in the category of belles-lettres, nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature (1902, 1903, 1904, 1905), and later refusing further nominations. The famous Russian writer Leo Tolstoy—“Hadji Murad.”

The book is read by a popular film actress and well-known voice actress Julia Tarkhova. “It was at the end of 1851. On a cold November evening, Hadji Murad rode into the Chechen unpeaceful aul of Makhket, which was smoking with fragrant kishchy smoke. Just then the tense chanting of the muezzin had died down, and in the clear mountain air, saturated with the smell of kishchy smoke, the harsh sounds of arguing male voices were clearly heard—along with women’s and children’s voices from beneath the fountain—heard distinctly above the lowing of cows and the bleating of sheep, which were being herded into the tightly packed, honeycomb-like huts of the village, built close together. This Hadji Murad—famous for his feats of courage—was the greatest of Shamil’s men, and he never traveled except with his badge and accompanied by dozens of mürids who rode around him.”

To Julia Tarkhova’s credit are roles in Russian and Soviet cult films such as “Tomorrow Was War (1987),” “The Quiet Outpost (1985),” “Zina-Zinulia (1986),” “Summoned by the Revolution,” “Red Cherry (1995),” and dubbing in dozens of films, including such bestsellers as “Spy Bridge (2015),” “No. 44 (2014),” and many others. We’re listening, liking, and actively commenting! ) © & ℗ LLC “MediaBook”, 2021