Bagrat Shinkuba The Last of the Departed  

Bagrat Shinkuba: The Last of the Departed  

FOREWORD……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….2 BOOK ONE…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………5 FEASTING WITH THE DEAD …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..5 WHEN WE WERE AT HOME…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………13 HAJI BERZEK KERANTUKH …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..18 HOW THE UBYKHS MET THEIR FOSTER BROTHER ………………………………………………………………………………….25 SHARDYN, SON OF ALOU ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………31 THE LAST COUNCIL IN THE HOUSE OF CHESTNUT WOOD ……………………………………………………………………….37 A HANDFUL OF EARTH ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….44 BOOK TWO………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………55 WHERE IS THAT PARADISE!…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………55 MOUNTAINS AFLAME ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..65 “THERE’S NO GOD BUT ALLAH” …………………………………………………………………………………………………………..71 BACK TO THE LAND OF THE UBYKHS…………………………………………………………………………………………………….77 OSMANKOY………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………84 UBYKH WOMEN DOOMED………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….94 ALONG THE YELLOW ROAD OF THE DESERT………………………………………………………………………………………..103 ALONG DRY RIVERS………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….112 SONG OF THE WOUNDED …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………119 BOOK THREE…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..126 WHAT CAN TIME CHANGE? ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………126 THE BRASS HORN …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….132 OUR PRIEST’S DEMISE………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………137 MANSOU, SON OF SHARDYN …………………………………………………………………………………………………………….141 ASTAN ZOLAK………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….145 A NEWSPAPER FROM ABKHASIA………………………………………………………………………………………………………..149 ON OPPOSITE SHORES ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..152 BYTKHA’S DISAPPEARANCE AND TAGIR’S DEATH…………………………………………………………………………………156 THE FINAL JOURNEY…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………164 AFTERWORD ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….172 He who loses his country loses all.   Abkhasian proverb

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