A socialite starts an affair with a cavalry officer, against a backdrop of wealthy family life in Imperialist Russia.

A brief meditation on depression, philosophy, religion, and the meaning of life.

The legendary warrior Hadji Murád struggles to free his family against the backdrop of Russian imperialism in Chechnya and Dagestan.

Tolstoy describes true Christianity as a non-hierarchical, nonviolent, non-coercive pursuit, and criticizes institutional Christianity as a deceptive corruption.

A Russian landlord makes reparations to the woman he wronged in his youth.

A collection of all of the short stories and novellas written by Leo Tolstoy.

The story of five families in Russia during the Napoleonic Wars.

Leo Tolstoy outlines his philosophy of aesthetics.