Sevastopol Stories

Sevastopol stories Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) is devoted to the heroic defense of Sevastopol during the Crimean War. For several months, Tolstoy was in a deposited city and participated in his defense. For courage, the young officer was awarded the Order of St. Anne, medals for the protection of Sevastopol and In memory of the war of 1853-1856. In stories written under a lively impression of Sevastopol events, the writer showed the war not in the right, beautiful and brilliant strictly, with music and drumbo, and In the present expression - in the blood, in the suffering, in death ... . Sevastopol stories were published in 1855-1856. In the magazine Contemporary and strengthened the reputation of a thick as a bright, talented writer, on which, as N. A. Nekrasov wrote, all the hopes of Russian literature were resting. This edition also includes other early stories Tolstoy: Misel, Three Death, Polykushka