Lev Tolstoy. "Prophet without honor" (set 1)

“And again Leo Tolstoy and his conflict with the Church, how much can you?!” - the reader will say, seeing this book - and will be wrong. There are conflicts in history to which humanity is returning again and again - not because new facts have opened, but because at a new round of life the old conflict is unexpectedly filled with a different content and requires a different understanding. Society is changing, traditional ideas are breaking - not to mention the views of an individual. And now, when the Church began to occupy a noticeable place in public life and in the minds of many people, the question: why did the great Russian classic disliked her so much that he got one-on-one in the fight against her-requires an answer at the level of our today's understanding. The answer is not a single -line, as in a computer game: who was right, who won this struggle - and a complex, overturned in a multilayer culture of the past and gives the ground for personal choice.