Sevastopol stories

Soon after the outbreak of the Crimean war, the young lieutenant Lev Tolstoy at the personal request was transferred to Sevastopol. The future writer fought on the famous 4th bastion and wrote notes about battles, army life, and military hospital. Later they formed in the artistic essays "Sevastopol in the month of December", "Sevastopol in May", "Sevastopol in August 1855", which differ, perhaps, the best description of the battle scenes in Russian literature.
The narrative is accompanied by reliable illustrations of Anatoly Kokorin, who himself was a participant in the war - the Great Patriotic War. The writer"s stories and the artist’s drawings appear before the reader as a report from the scene