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The Kumyk language was a subject of studies for Russian classical authors such as Leo Tolstoy and Mikhail Lermontov, both of whom served with the Imperial Russian Army in the Caucasus. The language is present in such works of Tolstoy as "The Raid", Cossacks, Hadji Murat, and Lermontov's - "A Hero of Our Time". Aelxander Bestuzhev-Marlinsky also featured the Kumyk language in his works "Molla-nur" and "Ammalat-bek".