Nel 1851, all'età di ventidue anni, Tolstoj si arruolò nell'esercito russo e si recò nel Caucaso come soldato. I quattro anni successivi furono tra i più significativi della sua vita e influenzarono profondamente i racconti qui raccolti. Iniziato nel 1852 ma incompiuto per un decennio, I cosacchi descrive le esperienze di Olenin, un giovane russo colto che arriva a disprezzare la civiltà dopo aver trascorso del tempo con il selvaggio popolo cosacco. Schizzi di Sebastopoli, basato sulle esperienze personali di Tolstoj dell'assedio di Sebastopoli nel 1854-55, è un'avvincente considerazione della natura della guerra, mentre Hadji Murat, scritto verso la fine della sua vita, torna al Caucaso della giovinezza di Tolstoj per esplorare la vita di un grande leader lacerato da un conflitto di lealtà. Scritto alla fine del diciannovesimo secolo, è tra le ultime e più grandi opere più brevi di Tolstoj.
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Count Leo Tolstoy was born on September 9, 1828, in Yasnaya Polyana, Russia. Orphaned at nine, he was brought up by an elderly aunt and educated by French tutors until he matriculated at Kazan University in 1844. In 1847, he gave up his studies and, after several aimless years, volunteered for military duty in the army, serving as a junior officer in the Crimean War before retiring in 1857. In 1862, Tolstoy married Sophie Behrs, a marriage that was to become, for him, bitterly unhappy. His diary, started in 1847, was used for self-study and self-criticism; it served as the source from which he drew much of the material that appeared not only in his great novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877), but also in his shorter works. Seeking religious justification for his life, Tolstoy evolved a new Christianity based upon his own interpretation of the Gospels. Yasnaya Polyana became a mecca for his many converts At the age of eighty-two, while away from home, the writer suffered a break down in his health in Astapovo, Riazan, and he died there on November 20, 1910.
David McDuff was educated at the University of Edinburgh and has translated a number of works for Penguin Classics, including Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov.
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