Childhood. Adolescence. Youth

About the trilogy of Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) "Childhood. Adolescence. Youth "Dmitry Pisarev said: “No one further extends the analysis, no one looks so deep into the soul of a person, no one with such stubborn attention, with such an inexorable sequence does not understand the most secret motives, the most fleeting and, apparently, random movements of the soul ". It should be added that the writer looks into the soul of a child, a teenager, young men, that before him the psychology of childhood did not study or described so intently and that this is his first artistic work. The trilogy is not in vain called autobiographical, because the history of growing up Nikolenka Irteniev accurately and in detail conveys all the stages of the spiritual formation of Tolstoy. The first love, childish resentment, the loss of mother, an acute sense of injustice, the first betrayal, a change of moral values ​​... In the final of the book, her hero starts a notebook with the rules by which he is going to live all his future life, without changing his principles. These principles will very soon become known to the world, and the person who so correctly formulated them, boys and youths of many next generations will be addressed with the question "how to live, Lev Nikolaevich?".

The accompanying article by Pavel Basinsky

Pavel Valerievich Basinsky (b. 1961) - Russian writer, literary critic and critic. A graduate of the Literary Institute, candidate of philological sciences. Currently, he works as a columnist for the "Rossiy newspaper". It is included in the permanent jury of the award of Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Laureate of the Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of culture for the book "Saint against Leo. John of Kronstadt and Leo Tolstoy: the story of one enmity "and many literary awards, including the" Big Book "for the Documentary Roman" Leo Tolstoy: Fleet from Paradise "