Жизнь Льва Толстого: опыт прочтения. 3-е изд.

Lev Tolstoĭ davno stal vizitnoĭ kartochkoĭ russkoĭ kulʹtury, no v sovremennoĭ Rossii ego vosprii͡atie neredko zatumaneno stereotipami, idushchimi ot sovetskoĭ tradit͡sii, shkolʹnym prepodavaniem, zhelaniem protivopostavitʹ Tolstogo-khudozhnika Tolstomu-mysliteli͡u. Mezhdu tem imenno segodni͡a Tolstoĭ porazitelʹno aktualen: idei͡a nenasilʹstvennogo soprotivlenii͡a, vegetarianstvo, daunshifting, trebovanie otkaza ot voennoĭ sluzhby, borʹba za sokhranenie prirody, otnoshenie k li͡ubvi i k seksualʹnosti vse, chto kazalosʹ ego strannostʹi͡u, stanovitsi͡a mirovym intellektualʹnym meĭnstrimom. Novai͡a kratkai͡a biografii͡a velikogo pisateli͡a proslezhivaet osnovnye linii ego sudʹby i tvorchestva. Khudozhestvennoe i filosofskoe nasledie Tolstogo rassmatrivaetsi͡a zdesʹ naravne s voennym opytom, krestʹi͡anskim trudom i semeĭnoĭ tragedieĭ. Andreĭ Zorin istorik literatury, professor Oksfordskogo universiteta i MVShSĖN.

Leo Tolstoy has long been a hallmark of Russian culture, but in modern Russia his perception is often clouded by stereotypes coming from the Soviet tradition, school teaching, and the desire to contrast Tolstoy the artist with Tolstoy the thinker. Meanwhile, it is today that Tolstoy is strikingly relevant: the idea of nonviolent resistance, vegetarianism, downshifting, the requirement to refuse military service, the struggle for nature conservation, attitudes towards love and sexuality, everything that seemed strange to him, is becoming the world intellectual mainstream. A new short biography of the great writer traces the main lines of his fate and work. Tolstoy's artistic and philosophical legacy is viewed here on a par with military experience, peasant labor, and family tragedy. Andrey Zorin is a literary historian, professor at the University of Oxford and the Moscow Institute of Economics.