" Il me reste peu de temps a vivre et, avant de mourir, je voudrais vous dire, a vous travailleurs, ce que j'ai pense du joug qui pese sur vous et des moyens qui pourraient vous en liberer. J'ai beaucoup reflechi a ce sujet, et de tout ce que j'ai pense et pense encore, peut-etre quelque chose pourra-t-il vous servir. Je m'adresse naturellement aux ouvriers russes parmi lesquels je vis, et que je connais davantage; mais j'espere que certaines de mes pensees pourront egalement etre utiles aux travailleurs des autres pays..."

Youth; 1857 is the third novel in Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy, following Childhood and Boyhood. It was first published in the popular Russian literary magazine Sovremennik.

The Death of Ivan Ilyich, first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s. "Usually classed among the best examples of the novella," The Death of Ivan Ilyich tells the story of the sufferings and death of a high-court judge from a terminal illness in 19th-century Russia.

Brekhunov has a passion to acquire a grove of oak trees in the nearby village of Gorachkin. He fears that unless he gets there as soon as possible, someone else will buy it before he can. The enterprising Brekhunov intends to have the trees cut down to make into sledge-runners; the leftovers will be sold for firewood. From this deal, he hopes to realize a tidy profit. He figures that the grove of trees is worth more than twenty thousand rubles. The owner is asking only ten thousand but will probably take seven thousand, with three thousand on account. Brekhunov will use seven hundred rubles...

The Cossacks is a short novel by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1863 in the popular literary magazine The Russian Messenger. It was originally called Young Manhood. Both Ivan Turgenev and the Nobel prize-winning Russian writer Ivan Bunin gave the work great praise, Turgenev calling it his favorite work by Tolstoy.Tolstoy began work on the story in August 1853. In August 1857, after having reread Iliad, he vowed to completely rewrite The Cossacks. In February 1862, after having lost badly at cards he finished the novel to help pay his debts. 5] The novel was published in 1863, the same year his...

The story begins with the childhood and exceptional and accomplished youth of Prince Stepan Kasatsky. The young man is destined for great things. He discovers on the eve of his wedding that his fiancee Countess Mary Korotkova has had an affair with his beloved Tsar Nicholas I. The blow to his pride is massive, and he retreats to the arms of Russian Orthodoxy and becomes a monk. Many years of humility and doubt follow. He is ordered to become a hermit. Despite his being removed from the world, he is still remembered for having so remarkably transformed his life. One winter night, a group of...

Childhood is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released under the initials L. N. in the November 1852 issue of the popular Russian literary journal The Contemporary. It is the first in a series of three novels and is followed by Boyhood and Youth. Published when Tolstoy was just twenty-three years old, the book was an immediate success, earning notice from other Russian novelists including Ivan Turgenev, who heralded the young Tolstoy as a major up-and-coming figure in Russian literature. Childhood is an exploration of the inner life of a young boy, Nikolenka, and one of the books in...

Boyhood is the second novel in Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy, following Childhood and followed by Youth. The novel was first published in the Russian literary journal Sovremennik in 1854.

" Papes, cardinaux, eveques, superintendants, pretres ou pasteurs, quelle que soit votre confession, quel que soit votre ministere, abandonnez pour un instant l'assurance d'etre les vrais, les uniques disciples du Christ-Dieu, d'etre seuls appeles a precher son enseignement; rappelez-vous seulement qu'avant d'etre pape, cardinal, eveque, pretre, etc., vous etes des hommes, c'est-a-dire, d'apres votre doctrine meme, des etres envoyes par Dieu en ce monde pour l'accomplissement de Sa loi. Souvenez-vous-en, et songez a ce que vous faites. Toute votre existence est vouee a la propagande, au...