Autobiographical Trilogy: Childhood, Youth, and Boyhood

These three connected early novels from the author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina form an intimate portrait of Russian youth.

Begun when Leo Tolstoy was just twenty-three years old and stationed at a remote army outpost in the Caucasus Mountains, his work known as the Autobiographical Trilogy would win immediate fame and critical praise years before works like War and Peace and Anna Karenina would bring him to the forefront of Russian literature.

Here is the story of a young man—th...