Russian Stories and Legends

by Leo Tolstoy, Alexander Alexeieff (Illustrator)

Contents include: What Men Live By / How Much Land Does a Man Need? / The Three Hermits / Where Love Is, God Is / Two Old Men / God Sees the Truth, But Waits / The Godson / Master and Man.

Genres: Russia

224 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1967

About the author

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой; most appropriately used Liev Tolstoy; commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world's greatest novelists. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer.

His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and anarcho-pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Reviews

[Luca · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dit boek is heerlijk voor het slapen gaan en heeft mij als heidens jochie de mooie kanten van religie doen in zien. Streef naar een simpel leven, wees goed voor een ander en het is niet erg om een dwaas te zijn.

[Finn · Rating 1 out of 5]

ik had een boek vol coole verhalen met mythische wezens uit rusland verwacht verwacht, zoals baba yaga. Maar dit waren eigenlijk alleen maar bijbel verhalen met russische namen

[Eric Hinkle · Rating 3 out of 5]

All moral tales, all about God and whatnot. Decent stories and well-written, but probably not his best work!