Leo Tolstoy: Flight from Paradise. Basinsky P.V.

A little more than a century ago, an emergency event occurred in Yasnaya Polyana. The writer Count L. N. Tolstoy fled from his house in an unknown direction at night. The departure and death of the great old man gave rise to many myths and legends. Pavel Basinsky in the book “Leo Tolstoy: Flight from Paradise” gives a lively reconstruction of this event, proposes to trace Lev Tolstoy’s last life and the last path of his family drama and secrets of signing the spiritual testament.

Pavel Basin - Writer, journalist, literary critic. Laureate of the Prize "Big Book". His fascinating documentary studies about the life and work of Leo Tolstoy raised a new wave of interest in the phenomenon of the "Yasnaya Polyan Apostle." The “flight from paradise” continues the series “Tolstoy: a new look”, begun by the book “The true story of Anna Karenina.”

“He runs... He is all confused in family contradictions. He is torn to pieces by the devils, Sofya Andreevna, Tolstoyeans, heirs, petitioners... He is weak, sinful, sick and perfectly understands this. But at the station Astapovo, he was not a private, albeit famous, man. Here

the fate of the empire was decided, and the whole world was watching it. "