- 2003
Dispatches from the second Chechen war, from the villagers caught between both sides.
- 1912
1851: a Chechen chief changes sides, and is crushed between Shamil and the tsar.
- 1863
A Moscow cadet goes to live in a Cossack village on the Terek, and loves a girl there.
- 1859
Dumas rides from the Volga through Dagestan and Chechnya’s forts in the winter of 1858.
- 1840
Pechorin, a bored officer, toys with lives at the Pyatigorsk spa and the Caucasus forts.