Quotes Tagged With :caucasus

...and to this day the rare traveller who knows the language and customs even of the worst of the tribes....

The door suddenly opened. A leggy young brunette took two steps into the office and stopped short. Her....

Hospitality, as with all the mountain tribes, was - and is still - a most sacred duty; and the man who....

It may be said without exaggeration that the mountains made the men; and the men in return fought with....

Mounting tensions in Eastern Europe send shivers down the spine. Barely a quarter of a century after....

As long as the forest stood the Tchetchens were unconquerable... and it is literally the fact that they....

The men were smashing windows and aiming their weapons through them. The driver had opened the door and....

It is not, in the long run, the battles and sieges that signify, but the permanent effect on the human....