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"God Sees the Truth, But Waits" is a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy first published in 1872. The story, about a man sent to prison for a murder he didn't commit, takes the form of a parable of forgiveness. English translations were also published under titles «The Confessed Crime» and «Exiled to Siberia». The concept of the story of a man wrongfully accused of murder and banished to Siberia also appears in one of Tolstoy's previous works, War and Peace, during a philosophical discussion between two characters who relate the story and argue how the protagonist of their story deals with injustice and fate. Ivan Dmitrich Aksionov is a merchant living in Vladimir, a town in Russia. Although Aksionov is prone to drinking, he is not violent, and he is responsible and well liked by people that know him. One day he decides to go to a fair as a business venture, but his wife pleads for him not to go because of a nightmare she had the previous night in which he had greyed hair. Aksionov disregards his wife's dream and leaves for the fair… Famous works of the author Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, The Kingdom of God Is Within You, Resurrection.

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A Russian Christmas Party by Leo Tolstoy is about a generous family on the brink of ruin whose mother pins their hopes for restoring their fortune on their son, Nicolas' marriage to a wealthy bride. Nicolas isn't cooperating, for he loves a poor girl named Sonia. Alas! How will they see it through? The Christmas stories of the famous authors: Gilbert Keith Chesterton – A Christmas Carol, Lucy Maud Montgomery – A Christmas Inspiration, A Christmas Mistake, Christmas at Red Butte, Lyman Frank Baum -A Kidnapped Santa Claus, Mark Twain – A Letter from Santa Claus, Louisa May Alcott – A Merry Christmas, Leo Tolstoy – A Russian Christmas Party, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – Christmas Bells, Nikolai Gogol – Christmas Eve, William Dean Howells – Christmas Everyday, Joseph Rudyard Kipling – Christmas in India, Lyman Frank Baum – Little Bun Rabbit, Elizabeth Harrison – Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe, John Milton – On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity, Charles Dickens – The Chimes, Nathaniel Hawthorne -The Christmas Banquet, Hans Christian Andersen – The Fir Tree, Selma Lagerlöf – The Holy Night, Hans Christian Andersen – The Little Match Girl, Clement Moore – The Night Before Christmas, Henry van Dyke – The Other Wise Man, William Dean Howells – The Pony Engine and the Pacific Express, Beatrix Potter – The Tailor of Gloucester, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – The Three Kings, Anton Chehov – Vanka.

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In «A Letter to a Hindu», Tolstoy argued that only through the principle of love could the Indian people free themselves from colonial British rule. These ideas ultimately proved to be successful in 1947 in the culmination of the Indian Independence Movement. In 1908, Indian revolutionary Taraknath was wrote to Leo Tolstoy, by then one of the most famous public figures in the world, asking for the author’s support in India’s independence from British colonial rule. On December 14, Tolstoy, who had spent the last twenty years seeking the answers to life’s greatest moral questions, was moved to reply in a long letter, which was published in the Indian newspaper Free Hindustan. Passed from hand to hand, the missive finally made its way to the young Mahatma Gandhi, whose career as a peace leader was just beginning in South Africa. He wrote to Tolstoy asking for permission to republish it in his own South African newspaper, Indian Opinion. Tolstoy’s letter was later published in English under the title A Letter to a Hindu.

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«Были брат и сестра – Вася и Катя, у них была кошка. Весной кошка пропала. Дети искали ее везде, но не могли найти…»

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Сборник рассказов и сказок Л. Н. Толстого с красочными иллюстрациями для детей дошкольного и младшего школьного возраста. Для самостоятельного чтения с 7-ми лет.

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Добрыя цікавыя казкі і апавяданні Л. М. Талстога і К. Дз. Ушынскага пражывёл і птушак.

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Der Roman wurde weltberühmt, weil er wie unter einem Brennglas die Zeit von 1805 bis 1812 aus russischer Sicht in beeindruckender Geschlossenheit darstellt, in Verbindung eines gesellschaftlichen und familiären Erzählstrangs mit dem der Kriegshandlungen, wobei personale Beziehungsgeschichten und Staatsaktionen miteinander wechseln. Diese Handlungen beziehen sich auf ein philosophisches Zentrum: Das Menschen- und Weltbild des Autors. Einmal, im Großen, die vielfältig sich überschneidenden politisch historischen, vom einzelnen Menschen sogar vom Feldherrn Napoleon schwer durchschaubaren, wie ein Netz aus Zufällen erscheinenden Kausalketten. Zweitens, im persönlichen Bereich, die Suche nach dem Lebenssinn und der Übereinstimmung mit sich selbst. In diesem Zusammenhang stellt der Autor am Beispiel der Protagonisten Andrej und Marja Bolkonski, Natascha und Nikolai Rostow sowie Sonja und v. a. Pierre Besuchow in seiner Suchwanderung verschiedene Persönlichkeitsstrukturen und Lebensmodelle einander gegenüber.

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