SOCIAL ETHICS IN LEO TOLSTOY'S STORIES

ABSTRACT

Tolstoy was born at Yasnaya Polyana. His family estate was at hundred miles south of Moscow. He made attempts to apply his radical moral beliefs to his own life and became the most prominent novelist and story writer in an age and place of great authors. In all his works we ?nd a con?uence of moral and intellectual errors that he perceived in modern life and thought at the turn of the twentieth century. We can keep Tolstoy's activity in threefold. He was an artist, who produces ?ctions in various genres and with various ends in view. He was a religious thinker and publicist, who develops and explains a philosophical system with ethical in its emphasis. More importantly, he was an aesthetician, who elaborates a theory of universal comprehensible art