This is a book of folk stories, a testament to the Russian people. The stories are full of biblical references and instructive pathos, and also allow you to plunge into the life of a Russian village at the end of the century before last. Tolstoy’s folk tales are a testament to the Russian people, full of love and hope....

Is it possible to consider yourself a truly educated person without reading "War and Peace"? - I think the answer to this question is obvious.  Leo Tolstoy's epic novel War and Peace is considered to be the pearl of world literature. Critics of the whole world recognize “War and Peace” as a model of a new European novel, although it is not so full. From a technical point of view, it is possible to call this work absolutely perfect - descriptions of the epic events of the war with Napoleon of 1812, and at the same time the delicate characters of all strata of Russian society of that time.  It...

"Anna Karenina", one of the most famous novels of Leo Tolstoy, begins to put the phrase: "All happy families are alike." This is a book about eternal values: about love, about faith, about family, about human dignity. This is an incredibly awesome novel from the greatest writer of the XIX century. As Dostoevsky expressed, “Anna Karenina” already in the times of contemporaries struck the readers with the depth of the human soul displayed in the book. A century ago, the book was translated into many world languages, and nowadays the novel is included in the golden fund of the world's literature....