The Sabres of Paradise
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
Published: January 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 495
ISBN-13: 9780881840421
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); World history; History - General History; Eastern Europe - History; History: American; Eastern Europe; Eastern Europe - General; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; 1797 (ca.)-1871; Daghestan; History; Shamil; Shamil,
First sentence: Today, the name of Shamyl means little outside Russia and the Near East, though there are exiled Caucasian families living in Turkey (among them some of Shamyl's descendants) who still hang his portrait on their walls with all the reverence accorded to an ikon.