Leo Tolstoy is a famous Russian classic, one of the most famous writers abroad. From the pen of Tolstoy came out several unique works, subtly depicting the psychology of the human soul.
The famous epic "War and Peace"
This large-scale work, which tells about the life of the Russian noble society during the Patriotic War, includes many storylines. Here you can find love stories, and battle scenes, and morally difficult situations, and descriptions of several human types of that time. The work is very multifaceted, several ideas characteristic of Tolstoy are carried out in it, and all the characters are written out with amazing accuracy.
It is known that the work on the work lasted about 6 years, and its initial volume was not 4, but 6 volumes. Leo Tolstoy used a huge number of sources to make the events look authentic. He read the works of Russian and French historians, memoirs of participants in the war, private letters for the period from 1805 to 1812. However, Tolstoy himself regarded his work with a certain degree of skepticism. So, he wrote in his diary: "People love me for those trifles -" War and Peace ", etc., which seem very important to them."
Researchers have counted 559 heroes in the novel War and Peace.
"Anna Karenina" - a tragic love story
Not everyone has read this famous novel, but everyone knows its tragic ending. The name of Anna Karenina has already become a household name in conversations about unhappy love. Meanwhile, Tolstoy shows in the novel not so much the tragedy of events, as, for example, in Shakespeare, as a psychological tragedy. This novel is not devoted to pure and sublime love, which does not give a damn about all the conventions, but to the breaking psyche of a secular woman who suddenly found herself abandoned by everyone because of an "indecent" connection.
Tolstoy's work is popular because it is relevant at any time. Instead of the reasoning of earlier authors about enthusiastic and bright feelings, it shows the wrong side of blinding love and the consequences of relationships that are dictated by passion, not reason.
One of the heroes of the novel "Anna Karenina", Konstantin Levin, is an autobiographical character. Tolstoy put his thoughts and ideas into his mouth.
"Childhood. Adolescence. Youth "- an autobiographical trilogy
Three stories, united by one hero, are partly based on the memories of Tolstoy himself. These works are a kind of diary of a growing up boy. Despite the good upbringing and care from the elders, the hero is faced with problems typical of his age.
As a child, he experiences his first love, prepares for confession with fear, and faces injustice for the first time. A teenage hero, growing up, learns what betrayal is, and also finds new friends and experiences a breakdown of old stereotypes. In the story "Youth" the hero faces social problems, acquires the first mature judgments, enters the university and thinks about his future destiny.
