Война и мир

Лев Толстой

War and Peace

“War and Peace” is an epic novel by Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy. The author’s historical and philosophical thought for the most part penetrates into the novel not in the form of reasoning, but in brilliantly captured details and complete pictures, the true meaning of which is not difficult for any thoughtful reader to understand. The writer tries to capture the spontaneous, unconscious beginning of human life in any event or phenomenon. And the whole idea of ​​the novel boils down to the fact that success and failure in historical life depends not on the will and talents of individual people, but on the extent to which they reflect in their activities the spontaneous course of historical events. Recognized by literary scholars around the world as the greatest epic work of new European literature, “War and Peace” graphically covers all social strata of Russian society at the beginning of the 19th century and is rightfully considered an encyclopedia of the psychology of the Russian people… In 1908, Leo Tolstoy wrote in his diary: “People love me for those trifles – “War and Peace”, etc. etc., which seem very important to them.”