Sevastopol Stories (Audiobook MP3)

The proposed audiobook of Ardis studio includes three artistic essays L.N. Tolstoy, united by the author into the Sevastopol stories in the cycle. In 1854, the twenty -six -year -old lieutenant Lev Tolstoy achieved a transfer to the Crimean army and participated in the defense of the besieged) Sevastopol. Here he created his first story about the heroic defense of the city "Sevastopol in the month of December". It was followed by two others: "Sevastopol in May" and "Sevastopol in August 1855". "Sevastopol stories" draw a mercilessly reliable picture of the Crimean epic, put important problems of war and peace, true heroism, patriotism, reveal the depths of the human psyche in the face of death. The works in which the war for the first time is shown by an ugly massacre, forcing people to doubt the mind, meaningless and inhuman, made a huge impression on readers.
Tolstoy told about the war without embellishment, depicted it "not in the right, beautiful and brilliant system, with music and drummer fight, with fluttering banners and prancing generals, and ... in its real expression, in the blood, in suffering , in death ... "