Lev Tolstoi - svobodnyi chelovek [Leo Tolstoy - a Free Man

Writer and journalist, laureate of the Big Book literary prize Pavel Basinsky sums up his many years of searching for the ‘true Tolstoy’ in a book written on the basis of extensive documentary material, from which the reader learns why Tolstoy sold his father’s house, why in his old age he learned Greek in a month and a half, how he saved tens of thousands of starving people, why he didn’t like ‘Tolstoyites,’ why he rewrote his will; In a word, this is a complete biography of a literary genius in a small format.