Lev Tolstoy

Dozens of memoirs were written about Leo Tolstoy, including the memories of his closest relatives, the smallest facts of his biographies are reflected in hundreds of letters and diary entries of contemporaries. Nevertheless, his life continues to be a mystery. How did the great writer and philosopher get from the "Rubbed Small Education, who did not receive a systematic education? What did his" spiritual coup me mean? What prompted him to abandon property and literary rights? Why was he excommunicated from the church? What are the true reasons for several attempts to leave the house? Why did he go to Optina desert before his death?
Writer and journalist, Laureate of the Literary Prize "Big Book" Pavel Basinsky summarizes his perennial searches of the True Tolstoy in a book written on the basis of extensive documentary material, from which the reader recognizes why Tolstoy sold his father’s house, why in advanced For a month and a half, he learned the Greek language, as he saved dozens of starving, for which he did not like the Tolstoyites, for which he rewrote the will six times ... In a word, this is a complete biography of a literary genius in a small format