The Caucasian War is one of the most controversial pages in Russian history. However, Amiran Urushadze’s book goes beyond the scope of historiographical and political disputes; the author is not interested in the history of campaigns, battles, conquest or resistance, but in the holistic, multifaceted history of man in the Caucasian War. The book consists of seven “stories” by different characters, each with its own truth. The reader will feel the depth and drama of the history of the Caucasus region, and will understand the nature of many of today's events. Amiran Urushadze - Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of National History of the Southern Federal University, junior researcher at the Institute of Socio-Economic and Humanitarian Research of the Southern Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Specialist in the history of the Caucasus of the 18th–19th centuries.