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Confession (pre-reform Russian: Исповѣдь; post-reform Russian: Исповедь, romanized: Íspovedʹ), or My Confession, is a short work on the subject of melancholia, philosophy and religion by the Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy. It was written in 1879 to 1880, when Tolstoy was in his early fifties.
The Power of Darkness (Russian: Власть тьмы, Vlast′ t′my) is a five-act drama by Leo Tolstoy. Written in 1886, the play's production was forbidden in Russia until 1902, mainly through the influence of Konstantin Pobedonostsev. In spite of the ban, the play was unofficially produced and read numerous times.
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The Light Shines in the Darkness is an unfinished play by Leo Tolstoy, written in 1890. [1] Arguably his most autobiographical piece, the play is said to "mirror Leo Tolstoy’s highly personal dilemma as if seen through the crucible of the family. " [ 2 ]
Recollections of a Billiard-marker" ("Записки маркера" ["Zapiski markera"], sometimes translated as "A Billiard-Marker's Notes") is a short story by Leo Tolstoy written and published in 1855, early in Tolstoy's career. It was translated to English by Nathan Haskell Dole. [1]
In 2014, playwright Scott Carter wrote The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord, a play that depicts Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens, and Leo Tolstoy stuck in purgatory together, as each of the three men wrote his own interpretation of the Gospels (Jefferson wrote The Life and Morals of Jesus of ...
According to academic Andrew Donskov, The First Distiller was an anti-alcohol morality play, based on Tolstoy's short story Promoting a Devil, that drew upon numerous literary themes already present in Russian literature in the 1860s, such as A. F. Pogossky's 1861 story of the same title.
Introduction: A Confession (1879–1880) [2] Vol. 1: A Criticism of Dogmatic Theology (1880–1882) Vol. 2: The Four Gospels Harmonized and Translated (1880–1882) The Gospel in Brief (Containing only the summaries and translations from Vol. 2) (1882) Vol. 3: What I Believe (aka My Religion) (1884) What Shall We Do Then? (1886) On Life (1887) [3]