Reading together with Tolstoy. Pushkin. Plato. Gogol. Tyutchev. La Boétie. Montaigne. Vladimir

The Circle of Tolstoy’s reading was extremely great, and often on the pages of books he made all kinds of notes. There are many such books in the Yasnaya Polyansk library, but only a small part of them has been studied.
Vitaly Remizov proposes to make a fascinating journey into the world of the love lyrics of Pushkin and his novel "Evgeny Onegin", to think about Gogol"s spiritual and religious revelations on the example of his "elected places ...", to join mysterious and brilliant poetry Tyutcheva, to understand the special attitude to the last novel of Dostoevsky, which Tolstoy re -read on the eve of leaving Yasnaya Polyana.
Together with Tolstoy, we will visit ancient Greece as the interlocutors of Socrates and Plato, we will enter into dialogue with the philosopher Vladimir Solovyov about his understanding of the “meaning of love”, we will be captured by the fascinating wisdom of the “experiments” of Montaenia, and we will meet with his friend Boeti, who rebelled against "voluntary slavery".
In these books - a small particle of what we call the universe of Leo Tolstoy.
The attitude of the great artist to someone else"s text found his embodiment not only in words, but also in signs-symbols, the meaning of which the author of this book reflects on the meaning of. He also invites the reader to joint comprehension of the secrets of Tolstoy"s marks