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A collection of short stories from one of the most famous writers of very long novels, Leo Tolstoy, including: 'Ilyas', 'Little Girls Wiser Than Men' and 'The Coffee-House of Surat'.

'For man to be able to live, he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.' Read in English, unabridged.

Two little girls from different houses happened to meet in a lane between two homesteads, where the dirty water, after running through the farmyards, had formed a large puddle. One girl was very small, the other a little bigger. Their mothers had dressed them both in new frocks. The little one wore a blue frock, the other a yellow print, and both had red kerchiefs on their heads. They had just come from church when they met, and first they showed each other their finery, and then they began to play....

A story of a successful farmer, Ilyas, who grew into one of the wealthiest in the area only to lose it all through series of bad accidents. He finds his happiness, however, only after losing all his possessions and achieving peace for himself and his wife. Read in English, unabridged.

Tolstois Erzählung aus der Zeit des russisch-tschetschenischen Krieges in der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts schildert den Freiheitskampf der kaukasischen Völker gegen den sich ausbreitenden russischen Zarismus. Murat Hadschi wird dabei zum tragischen Helden in einer Welt von rücksichtslosen Offizieren, leibeigenen Bauern sowie in Blutfehde lebenden Kaukasusvölkern. Kunstvoll und modern wechselt Tolstoi dabei zwischen den Perspektiven der Protagonisten.

Radiospektakl' "Utro pomeshhika" po odnoimennomu rasskazu L'va Nikolaevicha Tolstogo. Molodoj knjaz' Nehljudov ostavljaet universitet i perebiraetsja zhit' v derevnju s namereniem oblegchit' zhizn' svoim krepostnym. Odnako vse ego iniciativy natalkivajutsja na neponimanie i molchalivoe protivodejstvie prostyh muzhikov.

Izdanie soderzhit znamenitye proizvedenija o zhivotnyh krupnejshih russkih pisatelej: L. N. Tolstogo, A. P. Chehova, A. I. Kuprina. Dobrye, ostrosjuzhetnye, liricheskie, proizvedenija pokazyvajut krasotu, blagorodstvo, otvagu, beskorystnuju vernost' zhivotnyh. Oni napolneny ljubov'ju k "brat'jam nashim men'shim". Sozdannye velikimi pisateljami, sochetajushhie velikolepnyj jazyk i zanimatel'nyj sjuzhet, rasskazy izdanija interesny vzroslym i detjam. Oni delajut svoih chitatelej dobree i mudree.

Auf einer nächtlichen Bahnreise durch Russland entspinnt sich zwischen den Fahrgästen ein Gespräch über Gesellschaft, Liebe, Ehe und Moral. Da macht Gutsbesitzer Posdnyschew seinen Mitreisenden ein aufwühlendes Geständnis: Seine Ehe endete katastrophal, von maßloser Eifersucht zerfressen hat er seiner Frau das Leben genommen.

V ehtot sbornik rasskazov velikogo russkogo pisatelya voshli sleduyushchie proizvedeniya: Posle bala, Alesha Gorshok, Assirijskij car' Asarhadon, Kornej Vasil'ev, Fal'shivyj kupon, Yagody.

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) began writing when he was stationed in the Caucasus in the Russian army. After fighting in the Crimean war, he settled in St. Petersburg, where he wrote a number of stories which reveal an increasing disillusionment with society and the military. "The Empty Drum" is an antiwar story adapted from a Russian folk tale.

Die Zentralgestalt des Stückes, der "kluge, gebildete" Gutsbesitzer Nikolaj Ivanovic Sarynzew will sein und seiner Familie Leben nach dem in der Bergpredigt...

Der neureiche Kaufmann Wasilij Andrejitsch verirrt sich auf einer Geschäftsreise mit seinem Knecht Nikita in einem Schneesturm. Schließlich stecken Herr und Knecht mit dem Wagen im Schnee fest und die Nacht bricht herein. Es beginnt ein Kampf gegen die Elemente auf Leben und Tod.

Die Novelle "Drei Tode" wurde von Lew Tolstoi im Jahre 1859 geschrieben. Sie beschreibt die unterschiedlichen Arten zu Sterben und den...

"Weihnachten in Russland", gelesen von den beliebten Sprechern Christian Rode und Ulrike Hübschmann, entführt den Hörer in die Weiten des winterlichen Russlands. Zu hören sind 24 auf die Adventszeit einstimmende Überraschungen von Fjodor M. Dostojewski, Maxim Gorki, Alexander Puschkin, Leo Tolstoi, Anton Tschechow und anderen großen russischen Autoren.

Nachdem Fedja Protasov, ein sanfter, gütiger, ehrlicher, aber charakterschwacher, dem Alkohol und der Verschwendung zuneigender Enddreißiger Frau...

Held dieser Erzählung ist ein geschecktes Pferd, an dessen wechselvollen Erfahrungen mit seinen moralisch verkommenen Besitzern die Brüchigkeit der Gesellschaft entlarvt wird. Eine ergreifende Parabel über das Anderssein und die Leidensfähigkeit der Kreatur.

Tolstoy's literal interpretation of the 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 are represented in his short story "A Candle", which tells the story of a group of peasants suffering under a tyrannical overseer.

Leo Tolstoy is widely recognized as one of the world's greatest novelists and short story writers and a master of realistic fiction. He is equally known for his complex and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, developed following a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became known for his deep moral thinking and social reforms.

Blistatel'naja komedija velikogo russkogo pisatelja L'va Nikolaevicha Tolstogo (1828-1910). V Peterburge, v bogatom dome Zvezdincevyh, v privychnoj utrennej sumatohe snujut slugi, bespreryvno zvonjat v dver' posetiteli: artelycik ot Burd'e s plat'em i zapiskoj dlja baryni, Sahatov Sergej Ivanovich, byvshij tovarishh ministra, jelegantnyj gospodin, svobodnyj i interesujushhijsja vsem na svete, doktor, reguljarno nabljudajushhij barynju, Jakov-bufetchik, vechno vinovatyj, nelovkij i puglivyj.

Iz sosednej svetloj komnatki slyshatsja golosa treh uzhinajushhih molodyh ljudej. Oni sidjat v komnate okolo stola, na kotorom stojat ostatki uzhina i vina. Odin, malen'kij, chisten'kij, hudoj i durnoj, sidit i smotrit na ot#ezzhajushhego dobrymi, ustalymi glazami. Drugoj, vysokij, lezhit podle ustavlennogo pustymi butylkami stola i igraet kljuchikom chasov. Tretij, v noven'kom polushubke, hodit po komnate i, izredka ostanavlivajas', shhelkaet mindal' v dovol'no tolstyh i sil'nyh, no s otchishhennymi nogtjami pal'cah, i vse chemu-to ulybaetsja; glaza i lico ego gorjat.

The Forged Coupon is a novella in two parts by Leo Tolstoy. Though he first conceived of the story in the late 1890s, he did not begin writing it until 1902. After struggling for several years, he finally completed the story in 1904; however, it was not published until some of Tolstoy's shorter works were collected and anthologized after his death in 1910.