King Assarhaddon

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Lev Tolstoy in 1901
portrayed by Ilya Repin

King Assarhaddon , also King Asarhaddon ( Russian Ассирийский царь Асархадон , Assiriski Tsar Assarchadon ), is a legend by Lev Tolstoy , which originated in 1903 and was published in the same year by the St. Petersburg book publisher Posrednik with illustrations by Nadezhda Ivanovna Grishina.

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The Assyrian King Assarhaddon thinks about the method of execution for King Lailie at the night camp in Nineveh . He had this enemy of his handcuffed outside and locked in a cage. For twenty days the opposing king has had to listen to the screams of his comrades in arms, whose limbs had been chopped off and their skin peeled off at the place of execution. King Lailie had to watch how his beloved queen was brought as a slave to the enemy Assarhaddon.

An old man appears to Assarhaddon between waking and dreaming. The old man shows him who is half asleep: Both kings are one. Much more than that: he, Assarhaddon, could not - in whatever way - take the life of his enemy. Because there is neither time nor space for life. Life is a moment. Life is just like that for a number of millennia. The life of Assarhaddon, like the life of all visible and invisible beings in the world, is the same.

The following morning Assarhaddon releases all prisoners, appoints Assurbanihabal as his successor, makes a pilgrimage through Assyria and proclaims the message of the nocturnal visitor to the people along the way.

German-language editions

  • King Azarhaddon. German by Arthur Luther . P. 83–88 in: Gisela Drohla (Ed.): Leo N. Tolstoj. All the stories. Seventh volume. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1961 (2nd edition of the edition in eight volumes 1982)

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  1. ↑ In the 7th century BC BC - more precisely, around 676 BC BC - Assarhaddon is said to have defeated eight Arab tribal princes in the Arabian desert . Lailie was one of them (source: ru: Асархаддон # Поход против арабов, in German: Assarhaddon's campaign against the Arabs ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Russian Посредник (издательство), translated: Mediator
  2. ↑ née Schiwago , Russian Надежда Ивановна Гришина (Живаго) (born September 19, 1875; † after 1930)