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The Prisoner of the Caucasus" ("", ["Kavkazskii plennik"]) is an 1872 novella written by
Leo Tolstoy. The story is based on a real incident in his life while he was serving in the Russian military. It is about two soldiers kidnapped by their rivals for ransom who were in custody for some time. They tried to escape twice, were caught the first time, but succeeded the second.