Sevastopol stories. Sevastopol in August

Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) - great Russian writer, thinker, enlightener, whose ideas became the basis of a whole religious and moral current - Tolstoy, four -time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, the author of the novels "War and Peace", "Anna Karenina", "Resurrection", the novels "Death of Ivan Ilyich", "Kreutzerov Sonata", "Haji Murat", stories "Caucasian captive", "Holstometer", "Leo and Dog" and many. etc.
Tolstoy was a representative of the count branch of the noble family, was born in a hereditary estate - the estate of Yasnaya Polyana in the Tula province, where he later opened a school for peasant children. He lost his parents early and was brought up by guardians. Throwing the university and becoming a junker, with the outbreak of Crimean war, the young count transferred to the Danube Army, bravely fought, and from the end of 1854 to mid -1855 he served in Sevastopol.
Having become a participant in the hostilities, Tolstoy could not but show the public the non -paradise side of the war. There were many impressions: "The third day spent the night at the 4th bastion. Occasionally, a ship around the city shoots. Yesterday, the core fell near the boy and the girls who played horses along the street: they hugged and fell together, ”he wrote in his diary. The first essay was printed quickly, the second - worse, with censorship extracts, but in November, already in St. Petersburg, Tolstoy continued to work on the third, the most dramatic.
"Sevastopol in August 1855" - a story about the last assault on Sevastopol and the retreat of the Russian army. Tolstoy commanded five batteries, and in the young officer Volodya Kozeltsov, who was desperately cowardly, but overdo it, reflects the feelings and actions of the 24-year-old author. Tolstoy suffered the fall of Sevastopol as a personal tragedy: the third story came out piercing