Лев Миколайович Толстой

What is Art? is a book by Leo Tolstoy. It was completed in Russian in 1897 but first published in English due to difficulties with the Russian censors. Tolstoy cites the time, effort, public funds, and public respect spent on art and artists as well as the imprecision of general opinions on art as reason for writing …

A Confession is a short work on the subject of melancholia, philosophy and religion by the acclaimed Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy. It was written in 1879 to 1880, when Tolstoy was of late-middle age.

Leo Tolstoy combined detailed physical description with perceptive psychological insight to sweep aside the sham of surface appearances and lay bare man's intimate gestures, acts, and thoughts. Murder and sacrifice...greed and devotion...lust and affection...vanity and love -- one by one, in this volume of great …

Севастопольські оповідання — цикл з трьох оповідань, написаних Львом Толстим і опублікованих в 1855 році. Оповідання описують оборону Севастополя в часи Кримської війни 1853 - 1856 років. Толстой пише про героїзм захисників міста, але й про нелюдську безглуздість …