Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time.
The Power of Darkness is a five-act drama by Leo Tolstoy. Written in 1886, the play's production was forbidden in Russia until 1902, mainly through the influence of Konstantin Pobedonostsev. In spite of the ban, the play was unofficially produced and...
This book is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released under the initials L. N. in the November 1852 issue of the popular Russian literary journal The Contemporary.[1] It is the first in a series of three novels, followed by Boyhood and Yout...
In Sevastopol in December, Tolstoy uses second person narrative (with the pronoun 'you') in an introductory tour of life in Sevastopol. The detailed tour is arguably similar to one Tolstoy may have been given upon arrival in Sevastopol in November, 1...
Tolstoy sees the developing professionalism of art as hampering the creation of good works. The professional artist can and must create to prosper, making for art that is insincere and most likely partisan – made to suit the whims of fashion or...
Two young men, Eugene Irtenev and his brother, are left a large inheritance after the death of their father. However, the inheritance is saddled with debts, and the brothers must decide whether or not to accept it. Eugene accepts the inheritance and...
In this short story, a land owner named Vasili Andreyevich Brekhunov takes one of his peasants, Nikita, for a short journey by sleigh. They are traveling to visit another landowner so that Vasili Andreyevich can purchase a forest. He is impatient and...
A kind and humble shoemaker maker called Simon goes out one day to purchase sheep-skins in order to sew a winter coat for his wife and himself to share. Usually, the little money which Simon earns would be spent to feed his wife and children. Simon d...
In 1851 Lev Tolstoy enrolled in the Russian armed force and was sent to the Caucasus to help rout the Chechens. During this war an extraordinary Avar clan leader, Hadji Murad, broke with the Chechen head Shamil and fled to the Russians for security....
Acclaimed by numerous as the world's most noteworthy novel, Anna Karenina gives a endless scene of modern life in Russia and of humankind in common. In it Tolstoy employments his strongly inventive knowledge to make a few of the foremost memorable ch...
In Russia's battle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a catastrophe that included all mankind. More noteworthy than a chronicled chronicle, War and Peace is an certification of life itself, a total picture, as a modern analyst put it, of everything in...
