Tolstoy biography Sunday

The novel "Resurrection". Ideas about the moral improvement of each person as a way to achieve world harmony appeared in L. Tolstoy in his youth. They became the basis of his philosophy, which found its completed expression in the Confession - was completely published in the year in Geneva. The meaninglessness of life, the inevitability of death turned Tolstoy to faith in God. Despite the sincere faith, the writer openly criticizes theology, denies some dogmas of Orthodoxy, for example, he did not recognize the divine nature of Christ, studies the Hebrew language in order to read the Gospel in the original and create his own on the basis of four canonical texts.

The basis of its philosophy, called “Tolstoy”, is five commandments from the Nagorno -Merry. The key of them were the words about non -resistance to evil by the violence of the writer's philosophy of the writer - “non -resistance”. Tolstoy claims that evil cannot be stopped by other evil. Perhaps the most important misfortune of our time was that the government and the state in all possible ways oppressed the people, and the revolutionaries sought through rationally sound violence to change the existing system.

The writer believed that the power itself, any property itself, even scientific and technological progress, based on exploitation and leading only to increase luxury and pleasure, and not to the moral improvement of mankind. By the age of years, Tolstoy came to the denial of the state, church and property as different forms of evil. The writer contrasts the good to evil, who is even abstinence from violence.

The ideal for the writer is the life of a common people, filled with labor, based on reasonable laws of existence. In the year in the diary, the writer noted: “There was no thickness and my teachings, there is one eternal, universal, universal teaching of the truth a lot of followers appeared, among them, for example, N. They organized agricultural colonies, spread the writer’s philosophy abroad.

Tolstoy had the greatest influence in Bulgaria. In years, the writer begins to pay more attention to journalism. In his works, L. Tolstoy analyzed various social phenomena and processes of our time and responded to every important event by journalistic articles. In the early xs, the Tolstoy family moves to Moscow to educate young children. In the year, the writer participated in the census of the population, met closely with the life of one of the worst Moscow slum - the “rye fortress”, which he described in the treatise “So what should we do?

It concluded that "you can’t live like that." The writer first tried to leave the house. Tolstoy came to the complete denial of his own previous creativity and publicly abandoned copyright to all his works, and then from property in favor of his wife and children.

In the middle of the x, Tolstoy participates in the education of the publishing house "Mediator", which was supposed to release cheap books to popularize real literature. The writer creates a number of deliberately simplified stories for this publishing house. But they do not exhaust the work of Tolstoy of this period. There are novels "Holstometer. Horse history ”,“ The Death of Ivan Ilyich ”,“ Kreutserov Sonata ”,“ Father Sergius ” - published posthumously.

In the last two, an unprecedented question for Russian literature is raised about the power of gender, a biological beginning over a person’s personality. In years, several dramatic works were created: “Power of Darkness”, “Fruits of Enlightenment” - as well as the novel “Resurrection” - published in the journal Niva - an acutely social work, where the author sharply criticizes the church, state, marriage, revolution.