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"The Raid" (Russian: Набег, romanized: Nabeg) is a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1853. The story, set in the Caucasus, takes the form of a conversation between the narrator and a military captain about the nature of bravery.^[1] The story is based on Tolstoy's own experiences as an artillery cadet stationed in the Caucasus.^[2]

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^ Tolstoy, Leo. The Cossacks and The Raid. Translated by Andrew R. MacAndrew. New York: New American Library, 1961
^ Tolstoy, Leo The Raid and Other Stories, translated by Aylmer and Louise Maude. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 199, p. ix

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Novels	Childhood (1852) Boyhood (1854) Youth (1856) The Cossacks (1863) War and Peace (1869) Anna Karenina (1878) Resurrection (1899) Hadji Murat (1912)
Novellas	A Landowner's Morning (1856) Two Hussars (1856) Family Happiness (1859) Polikúshka (1860) The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886) Walk in the Light While There is Light (1888) The Kreutzer Sonata (1889) The Devil (1889) Master and Man (1895) Father Sergius (1898) The Forged Coupon (1904)
Short stories	"The Raid" (1852) "The Cutting of the Forest" (1855) "Sevastopol Sketches" (1855) "Recollections of a Billiard-marker" (1855) "The Snowstorm" (1856) "Lucerne" (1857) "Albert" (1858) "Three Deaths" (1859) "The Porcelain Doll" (1863) "God Sees the Truth, But Waits" (1872) "The Prisoner of the Caucasus" (1872) "The Bear Hunt" (1872) "What Men Live By" (1881) "Diary of a Lunatic" (1884) "Quench the Spark" (1885) "An Old Acquaintance" (1885) "Where Love Is, God Is" (1885) "Ivan the Fool" (1885) "Evil Allures, But Good Endures" (1885) "Wisdom of Children" (1885) "The Three Hermits" (1886) "Promoting a Devil" (1886) "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" (1886) "The Grain" (1886) "Repentance" (1886) "Croesus and Fate" (1886) "Kholstomer" (1886) "The Two Brothers and the Gold" (1886) "A Lost Opportunity" (1889) "A Dialogue Among Clever People" (1892) "The Coffee-House of Surat" (1893) "The Young Tsar" (1894) "Too Dear!" (1897) "Work, Death, and Sickness" (1903) "Three Questions" (1903) "Alyosha the Pot" (1905) "After the Ball" (1911)
Plays	The Power of Darkness (1886) The First Distiller (1886) The Light Shines in the Darkness (1890) The Fruits of Enlightenment (1891) The Living Corpse (1900) The Cause of It All (1910)
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