Sevastopol stories

Three great names of Russian literature. Nekrasov - Turgenev - about Tolstoy: Tolstoy sent an article about Sevastopol - but this article is performed by such sober and deep truth that there is nothing to think of printing it. With the laconicism of Twitter, one phrase, the very essence of the relationship between Russian authorities and society, press and censorship, cheers-patriots and true zealots of the glory of the Fatherland are described. Militaryor Lev Tolstoy in the Crimean campaign 1853-1856 commanded an artillery battery on the legendary fourth bastion. If it seems to you that the truth he told about the war for more than a century and a half, “lagged behind life”, repel "Sevastopol stories" - your illusion will be scattered.

The accompanying article by Jacob Gordin

Yakov Arkadievich Gordin (born 1935) - Russian historian, publicist, writer. He studied at the Philhante of Leningrad State University, worked as a geologist for five years, published poems and articles in periodicals. Since 1991, together with A. Yu. Aryev, editor -in -chief of the magazine "Zvezda". The author of many books in the genre of historical fiction, including “Leo Tolstoy and Russian History "," Russian Duel "," Caucasian Atlantis. 300 years of war "," Knight and Death, or Life as a plan: about the fate of Joseph Brodsky "," Alexei Ermolov. Soldier and his empire. "