Complete Works of Lyof N. Tolstoï, Vol. 6
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Excerpt from Complete Works of Lyof N. Tolstoï, Vol. 6: The Cossacks; Sevastopol; The Invaders; And Other Stories "The Cossacks" and the three Sevastopol sketches which were published in the early fifties were the direct outcome of Count Tolstoi´s own experience. After he had quitted the University of Kazan and had lived some months in retirement on his estate at Yasnaya Polyana, his favorite brother, Nikolaï, Nikolayevitch, who was a captain in the artillery serving at one of the outposts of the Caucasus, returned to Russia in 1851 on a furlough, and when he went back Count Lyof Nikolayevitch accompanied him and enlisted as a yunker. For two years he entered heartily into the strenuous life of that mountain frontier, became friendly with the Chechen tribesmen, engaged in wood-cutting expeditions, hunted and fought and gambled and wrote; for even then the passion for literary expression was on him. Among the earliest of his published works was that entitled "Kazaki" or "The Cossacks": it bears the date 1852. Turgenief called "The Cossacks" the best novel in Russian, and declared that it gave "an incomparable picture of men and things in the Caucasus." Interesting as it is from a picturesque standpoint, full as it is of the atmosphere and spirit of that "Olympus of Russian Poetry," it is also interesting as betraying the first intimations of the author´s altruism. He pictures Olyenin, who is the count himself, in the halcyon days of his youth and strength, coming from the empty, dissipated life of the capital to the region of noble snowcapped mountains, of fierce, independent men and women, children of the wild, untamed nature which is such a revelation to the blase man of the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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