Siege
On the second day of the Beslan siege, Vladimir reportedly stopped one of the other hostage-takers from killing Larisa Kudzieva, and offered to free her two children if she would wear an explosive belt and hijab, an offer which she refused.
During the siege, authorities got Aleksandra to phone her son, hoping she could convince him to let the children go free.
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“One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)