Sevastopol Stories

In the mid-50s of the XIX century, a cycle of Sevastopol L. N. Tolstoy (1828-1910) was published in the magazine "Contempor". For readers of that time, with the tense attention of those who were waiting for news of the Crimean War, these essays were of interest primarily as a living eyewitness evidence as a kind of reporting from the scene. Personal participation in the defense of Sevastopol allowed Tolstoy with the pupidity of the realist writer, fully and objectively portray different human characters. The writer shows that Russian soldiers, the simple people there is the main force that generates the heroic spirit of the defenders of the hero city. In the essays for the first time in the work of Tolstoy, a generalized image of the Russian people is presented, in the terrible time standing on the defense of their homeland. A new look at the war as a hard work, deprived of the halo of beautiful, the perception of it from the point of view of ordinary participants was the artistic opening of the Great Writer