So, as you all may have seen in my post, I read Hadji Murat recently (and loved it). I did have a question on it - it was apparently mostly written in the late 1890s and early 1900s but not published until after Tolstoy’s death. Is the (very negative) portrayal Tsar Nicholas I the main reason why it wasn’t published earlier? I think it would be considered especially sensitive (or resonant) to the public and the Tsarist censors because the Tsar at the time of writing, Nicholas II, shared a name with the older Tsar…