Russian Non-Fiction

This key religious and philosophical treatise by Leo Tolstoy, banned in Russia, became a manifesto of nonviolent resistance and the foundation of his teaching on Christian anarchism. Tolstoy rejects the traditional Church and the State, considering them direct enemies of true Christianity. He asserts that Christ’s teaching is a pure moral guide, the core of […]

This famous treatise is the result of fifteen years of Tolstoy’s reflections, in which he completely revised the criteria for evaluating art, rejecting the concepts of Beauty and Pleasure as false and elitist. Tolstoy asserts: true art is not pleasure, but a means of communication and union among men. Its main sign is infection: if […]