Sub-lieutenant Sevastopolsky. The mystery of war and peace

The book is devoted to the poorly studied Sevastopol epoch in the life of Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, its influence on the work of the greatest Russian writer.
L. N. Tolstoy was in the Crimea and in Sevastopol from November 1854 to November 1855, in the rank of artillery"s follow-up, which was referred to as the XIII class of ranks on ranks, which according to a modern scale corresponds to Lieutenant. Without Sevastopol, the handler of artillery would never have become generalissimus of Russian literature. Thanks to the experience of the Crimean War, the retired Ober officer took a unique place in world culture. Not only "Sevastopol stories", but also "war and world", "Cossacks", "Haji Murat", "Anna Karenina", journalistic and philosophical works Tolstoy reflected the military experience of Russian genius.
Historical and literary study of A. V. Tkacheva "Podoruk Sevastopol" on the basis of a wide range of archival and memoir sources for the first time exhaustive