Sevastopol stories. Sevastopol in August. Tolstoy L.

Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910)-a great Russian writer, thinker, enlightener, whose ideas became the basis of a whole religious and moral trend-fathers; four -time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature; The author of the novels “War and Peace”, “Anna Karenina”, “Resurrection”, the novels of the Death of Ivan Ilyich, “Kreutserov Sonata”, “Haji-Murat”, stories “Caucasian captive”, “Holstomer”, “Leo and dog” and pl. Dr. He lost his parents early and was brought up by guardians. Throwing the university and becoming a junker, with the outbreak of Crimean war, the young count transferred to the Danube Army, bravely fought, and from the end of 1854 to mid -1855 he served in Sevastopol. The non -parade side of the war. There were many impressions: “The third day I spent the night at the 4th bastion. Occasionally, a ship around the city shoots. Yesterday, the core fell near the boy and the girls who played horses along the street: they hugged and fell together, ”he wrote in his diary. The first essay was quickly printed, the second - worse, with censorship extracts, but in November, already in St. Petersburg, Tolstoy continued to work on the third, the most dramatic.

“Sevastopol in August 1855” - a story about the last assault Sevastopol and retreat of the Russian army. Tolstoy commanded five batteries, and in the young officer Volodya Kozeltsov, who is desperately cowardly, but overdo it, reflects the feelings and actions of the 24-year-old author himself. Tolstoy suffered the fall of Sevastopol as a personal tragedy: the third story came out piercing. It was printed, but with a large number of censorship passes, completely reducing the sized fifth chapter. And only in January 1856, a contemporary magazine was published a full version, first signed by the full name-“Count L.N. Tolstoy ".

The publication consists of two books, this publishes a third part of" Sevastopol Stories ".