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In Tolstoy's short story "Master and Man", Vasily Andreich Brekhunov, a rich merchant, is determined to close a business deal. He is travelling with his exploited servant, Nikita, through a blizzard - little realizing that this will soon become a life and death situation.

The story begins with the childhood and exceptional and accomplished youth of Prince Stepan Kasatsky. The young man is destined for great things. He discovers on the eve of his wedding that his fiancée Countess Mary Korotkova has had an affair with his beloved Tsar Nicholas I. The blow to his pride is massive, and he retreats to the arms of Russian Orthodoxy and becomes a monk. Many years of humility and doubt follow. He is ordered to become a hermit.

Auf dem Sterbebett schaut der schwerkranke Richter Iwan Iljitsch zurück auf sein Leben - mit bitteren Erkenntnissen: Sein Beruf bedeutet ihm nichts, seine Frau und er haben sich auseinandergelebt, all die Vergnügungen mit seinen Freunden erscheinen ihm im Nachhinein als vertane Zeit. Kurz: Er wünschte, er hätte anders gelebt. Isoliert von seiner Familie leidet Iwan psychische und physische Qualen, denen seine Ärzte völlig hilflos gegenüberstehen.

Blistatel'naja komedija velikogo russkogo pisatelja L'va Nikolaevicha Tolstogo (1828-1910). V Peterburge, v bogatom dome Zvezdincevyh, v privychnoj utrennej sumatohe snujut slugi, bespreryvno zvonjat v dver' posetiteli: artelycik ot Burd'e s plat'em i zapiskoj dlja baryni, Sahatov Sergej Ivanovich, byvshij tovarishh ministra, jelegantnyj gospodin, svobodnyj i interesujushhijsja vsem na svete, doktor, reguljarno nabljudajushhij barynju, Jakov-bufetchik, vechno vinovatyj, nelovkij i puglivyj.

In the winter of 1854 Tolstoy, then an officer in the Russian army, arranged to be transferred to the besieged town of Sebastopol. Wishing to see at first hand the action of what would become known as the Crimean War, he was spurred on by a fierce patriotism, but also by an equally fierce desire to alert the authorities to appalling conditions in the army. Writing with the truth as his utmost aim, he brought home to Russia's entire literate public the atrocities of war. In doing so, he realized his own vocation as a writer and established his literary reputation.

Set in late-19th-century Russian high-society, the aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. This classic novel is the basis for the current film.

"Bez ljubvi zhit' legche" - vospominanija, ispoved' L'va Nikolaevicha Tolstogo, russkogo pisatelja i myslitelja. Ego vospominanija o svoej chelovecheskoj prirode, kotoraja sklonna k ubijstvam, dujeljam, kartezhnym igram, k pol'zovaniju chuzhimi blagami, k kaznjam, bludu i obmanu. No v protivoves jetomu vsegda stavalo stremlenie k luchshemu. "Bez ljubvi zhit' legche. No bez nejo net smysla" glavnaja ideja Tolstogo.

"Weihnachten in Russland", gelesen von den beliebten Sprechern Christian Rode und Ulrike Hübschmann, entführt den Hörer in die Weiten des winterlichen Russlands. Zu hören sind 24 auf die Adventszeit einstimmende Überraschungen von Fjodor M. Dostojewski, Maxim Gorki, Alexander Puschkin, Leo Tolstoi, Anton Tschechow und anderen großen russischen Autoren.

Die Zentralgestalt des Stückes, der "kluge, gebildete" Gutsbesitzer Nikolaj Ivanovic Sarynzew will sein und seiner Familie Leben nach dem in der Bergpredigt...

Nachdem Fedja Protasov, ein sanfter, gütiger, ehrlicher, aber charakterschwacher, dem Alkohol und der Verschwendung zuneigender Enddreißiger Frau...

A Prisoner of the Caucasus is an 1872 novella by Leo Tolstoy about two Russian soldiers kidnapped by the enemy for ransom. They were held in custody for some time. They try to escape twice, but one of them succeeds the second time with the help of a local woman.

When a troubled schoolboy forges a cash coupon to pay off a debt, his deed starts off a chain reaction of tragedies that effects the lives of dozens, leading to thefts, imprisonments, murders, and in the end redemption. Originally published posthumously, this was one of the last works of Tolstoy, now excommunicated and raging against the hypocrisies of the Russian state and church.

Ivan Ilitch é um funcionário público do sistema judiciário russo. Casado com uma mulher exigente, buca ser um magistrado. O trabalho é o refúgio para evitar sua família. Depois de um acidente, ele acredita ter contraído uma doença, mas não há um diagnóstico satisfatório. O tempo passa e o ferimento agrava-se, ele então se vê restrito ao ambiente familiar. Ivan Ilitch quer morrer para dar fim à sua dor e à sua vida de mentiras. Inicia-se assim um processo de busca pelo sentido da vida, durante o qual Ivan percebe terem sido poucos os momentos da sua existência que tiveram significado.

Boyhood is the second in Tolstoy's trilogy of three autobiographical novels, including Childhood and Youth, published in a literary journal during the 1850s. (Introduction by Bill Boerst)

B.J. Harrison reads the classic by Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. Martin Avdeitch is a devoted shoemaker, who works in his basement and meets sorrow in life. His family has died, except for one son. When he faces a crisis, he turns to God to look for an answer to his hardships and find meaning in his life again. The short story "Where Love Is, God Is" from the late 19th century has been adapted to television, including the award-winning television film Winter Thaw (2016) starring John Rhys-Davies. B. J.

В окружном суде с участием присяжных заседателей слушается дело о похищении денег и отравлении, повлёкшем смерть купца Смелькова. Среди троих обвиняемых в преступлении предстаёт мещанка Екатерина Маслова, занимающаяся проституцией. 

In the course of this essay, Tolstoy attempts to find answers to the greatest questions of philosophy through science, philosophy, eastern wisdom, and the opinions of his fellow novelists. Finding no workable solution in any of these, Tolstoy recognizes the deep religious convictions of ordinary people as containing the key to true answers. The first attempt at its publication took place in 1882, but Tolstoy's work was removed from the journal by the Orthodox Church. The text was later published in Geneva in 1884 and in Russia as late as 1906.

The Inevitable Revolution is an essay about abolishing the law of violence and replacing it with the law of love. It is a text on civil disobedience, pacifism, and anarchism, and it is Tolstoy's last non-fiction work detailing his final opinions on political, economic, and religious issues. In it, he criticizes prisons, parliaments, wars, conscription, capitalism, theft, revolutionary violence, and taxes, and praises Christianity's message of love as the solution to these problems; although he also recognizes the law of love in other religions.

In his parable of Institutional Justice vs. Divine Judgement, we follow Aksionov through his journey of accusation and imprisonment for a murder he does not commit. After 26 years in a Siberian prison camp, he finally meets the man who put him there, and the choice of a lifetime is made.

War and Peace is a literary work mixed with chapters on history and philosophy by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. It was first published serially, then published in its entirety in 1869. First Epilogue: 1813-20: Seven years had passed. The storm-tossed sea of European history had subsided within its shores and seemed to have become calm. But the mysterious forces that move humanity (mysterious because the laws of their motion are unknown to us) continued to operate.