Sevastopol

by Leo Tolstoy, Isabel F. Hapgood (Translator)

Overview

Tolstoy (1828-1910) joined the army in 1851 and took part in campaigns against the native Caucasian tribes and, soon after, in the Crimean War (1853-56). This book of three sketches published between 1855 and 1856 is based on his experiences during the Crimean War.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940161265901
Publisher:	UnderPress Books
Publication date:	04/18/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	166 KB

About the Author

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: ??? ?????????? ???????; commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world's greatest novelists. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer.

Date of Birth:

September 9, 1828

Date of Death:

November 20, 1910

Place of Birth:

Tula Province, Russia

Place of Death:

Astapovo, Russia

Education:

Privately educated by French and German tutors; attended the University of Kazan, 1844-47