The death of Ivan Ilyich. Tolstoy L.

Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, perhaps the most famous Russian writer in the world, an unsurpassed prose writer, who, according to V. Nabokov, discovered a “method of depicting life, which most accurately corresponds to our idea of ​​it. He is the only famous writer to me whose watch does not lag behind and do not overtake the countless hours of his readers... Tolstoy’s prose flows into the beat of our pulse, his heroes move at the same pace as passers -by under our windows while we are sitting over the book. ”

The readers' attention is proposed to a collection of stories by L. N. Tolstoy, each of which is an undoubted masterpiece, which had an unprecedented influence not only on the Russian, but also on the foreign culture of the twentieth century.