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THE

CIRCASSIAN CHIEF.

ROMANCE OF RUSSIA.

BY

WILLIAM H. G. KINGSTON, ESQ.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

TOTHE

LONDON

PRINTED BY SCHULZE AND CO. 13, POLAND STREET.

PREFACE.

Every person who writes, ought to have an aim; mine I leave to my readers to discover, trusting that it will not be considered a bad one. Although a work of fiction, many of the characters in the following Romance are no mere creations of the brain, but real personages who were, and probably are, still playing their part on the stage of life, as the heroic Arslan Gherrei, the brave and sagacious Hadji Guz Beg, Selem, and many others whom I have introduced among the Circassians. The names of the Russian officers are, however, purely fictitious.

The recurrence of conspiracies, similar to that described in the following pages will be found in nearly every work relating to Russia.

I have enjoyed the best means of gaining correct information with respect to Circassia,

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