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Sevastopol Sketches

Author
Leo Tolstoy
Series
World Classics
Language
Russian
Length
128 pages
ISBN
9781910558843
Published
15 October 2014
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Leo Tolstoy
  • Crimea
  • Sebastopol
  • Ukraine
  • War
  • Russian Empire
  • philosophical
  • psychological
  • epic
  • historical

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Description

In Sevastopol (or Sebastopol) Sketches Tolstoy examines the senselessness and vanity of war, the many aspects of the psychology of war, heroism, and the misleading presence of humanism in truces. The name originates from Sevastopol, a city in Crimea. Many of the episodes in Tolstoy's War and Peace are linked to the events described in these sketches.

Author

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) was born to a titled family at Yasnaya Polyana, served in the Crimean War, and wrote the two novels that made Russian fiction a world event: War and Peace and Anna Karenina. The first holds a nation at war and at home; the second holds a marriage until it breaks. Later he turned from the worldly novel toward essays and moral tales, arguing with church, property, and his own fame. One hundred and six titles here.

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