Russian Literature and Empire: Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy - Paperbackby Susan Layton (Author), Catriona Kelly (Editor), Anthony Cross (Editor) This is the first synthesizing study of Russian writing about the Caucasus during the nineteenth century age of empire building. It covers major writers including Pushkin, Tolstoy and Lermontov, but also introduces material from travelogues, oriental studies, ethnography, memoirs, and the utterances of tsarist officials and military commanders. Setting these writings and the