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Leo Tolstoy
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Leo Tolstoy in his later years; early-20th century
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This is a list of works by Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910), including his novels, novellas, short stories, fables and parables, plays, and nonfiction.

Prose fiction

Novels

Novellas

Short stories

  • "Kholstomer" (aka "Strider") ("Холстомер", 1863–1886)
  • "Nicholas Stick" (1886)
  • "A Dialogue Among Clever People" (used as an introduction to the novella Walk in the Light...) (1892)
  • "After the Ball" ("После бала", 1903)
  • "Alyosha the Pot" ("Алёша Горшок", 1905)
  • "Berries" ("Ягоды") (1905)
  • "Divine and Human" ("Божеское и человеческое", 1905)
  • "Korney Vasiliev" [de] ("Корней Васильев", 1905)
  • "Why?" [de; ko; pl; ru] ("За что?", 1906)
  • "What I saw in a Dream" ("Что я видел во сне", 1906)
  • "Traveler and Peasant" [de] ("Проезжий и крестьянин", 1909, published 1917)
  • "Three Days in the Village" ("Три дня в деревне", 1910)
  • "Singing In The Village" ("Песни на деревне", 1910)
  • "A Talk With A Wayfarer" ("Разговор с прохожим", 1910)

Folk Tales, Fables and Parables

Adaptations

  • "Croesus and Fate" (adaptation of the Greek legend) (1886)
  • "Françoise" (adaptation of a story by Guy de Maupassant) ("Франсуаза", 1891)
  • "The Coffee-House of Surat" (adaptation of a story by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre) ("Суратская кофейная", 1893)
  • "Too Dear!" (adaption of a story by Guy de Maupassant) ("Дорого стоит", 1897)
  • "Poor People" (adaptation of a story by Victor Hugo) ("Бедные люди") (1905)
  • "Power of Childhood" (adaptation of Hugo's poem, "La guerre civile") ("Сила детства", 1908, pub. 1912)

Stories for Children

From ABC (1872) and New ABC (1875) Textbooks

  • ABC (Book 1, part 2):
    • I. (22 Fables)
    • II.
      • The Sea
      • Blind and Deaf
      • How I stopped being afraid of Blind Beggars
      • Mouse-girl
      • Lipunyushka
    • III.
      • Elephant
      • Chinese Queen Silinchi
      • How the Bukharians Learned to Breed Silkworms
      • Eskimos
      • From Speed Comes Power
      • How they Repaired a House in the City of Paris
      • Where Does the Water from the Sea Go?
    • IV.
  • ABC (Book 2, part 1):
    • I. (25 Fables)
    • II.
      • Girl and mushrooms
      • What kind of dew is on the grass?
      • The Indian and the Englishman (American story)
      • Old Horse
      • Orel (American)
      • Bear on a cart
      • Mad dog
      • Vest
      • The Lion and the Dog (American)
      • Sparrow
      • The Bishop and the Robber (Victor Hugo)
      • Lozina
      • 1000 Gold (French)
    • III.
      • Grass Snake (folk)
      • Luck (Indian)
      • Two brothers (Arabic)
      • Peter the Great and the Muzhik (Bezsonovo)
      • Three Thieves (Gebel)
      • An Equal Inheritance
    • IV.
      • Shat and Don (folk)
      • Volga and Vazuza (Vladimir Dal)
      • Sudoma (Perevlessky)
      • Golden-haired princess (Chizhov)
      • Cambyses and Psamenit (Herodotus)
      • Yermak
      • Owl and Hare
      • How Wolves Teach Their Children
      • Sparrow and swallows (Perevlessky)
      • Shark (American)
    • V. (Science Stories)
      • How a man removed a stone
      • Rolled cigarette
      • Warmth I
      • Warmth II
      • Warmth III
      • Why is there wind?
      • What is the wind for?
      • Why do windows sweat and there is dew?
      • Touch and vision
      • Magnetism I
      • Magnetism II
      • Magnetism III
    • VI. Sukhman (Bylina)
  • ABC (Book 3, part 1):
    • I. - V. (19 Fables)
    • VI.
      • King's son and his comrades (Turkish)
      • The Righteous Judge (eastern fairy tale)
      • How a Man Divided Geese
      • Severe Punishment (Arabic)
      • The Tsar's Brothers (Gebel)
    • VII.
      • How I Learned to Ride
      • Soldier's Household
    • VIII. (Stories of My Dogs)
      • Bulka
      • Bulka and Boar
      • Pheasants
      • Milton and Bulka
      • Turtle
      • Bulka and Wolf
      • What Happened to Bulka in Pyatigorsk
      • The End of Bulka and Milton
      • Rusak
    • IX.
    • X. (Science Stories)
      • Apple Trees
      • Bugs
      • Hare and Hound
      • Hares and Wolves
      • Senses
      • Why Does Frost Crack Trees?
      • Dampness I
      • Dampness II
      • Different Connections of Particles
      • Ice, Water and Steam
      • Crystals
    • XI. Volga Bogatyr (Bylina)
  • ABC (Book 4, part 1):
    • I. (12 Fables)
    • II.
      • The King and the shirt (Arabic)
      • Why is there evil in the world (Indian)
      • Raven and little crows (Lithuanian)
      • The Wolf and the Man (folk)
      • The Tsar's New Dress (H. C. Andersen)
    • III.
      • Jump (American)
      • Hunting is Worse than Slavery (aka "The Bear Hunt")
    • IV. A Prisoner in the Caucasus
    • V. (Science Stories)
      • Fox tail
      • Silkworm
      • Old poplar
      • Bird cherry
      • How the trees walk
      • Specific gravity
      • Harmful air
      • Gases I
      • Gases II
      • How to make balloons
      • An Aeronaut's Tale
      • Galvanism
      • The sun is warm
    • VI. Mikulushka Selyaninovich (Bylina)
  • New ABC:
    • Burden (Fable)
    • Big Stove (Fable)
    • Nakhodka (Story)
    • The Girl and the Robbers (Fairy Tale)
    • Walnut Branch (Fairy Tale)
    • Birdie (Story)
    • Three Bears (Fairy Tale)
    • How Uncle Semyon Talked About What Happened to Him in the Forest (Story)
    • Cow (Story)
    • Philippok (Story)

Additional Stories for Children

Unfinished

  • "A Christmas Night" ("Святочная ночь") (1853, pub. 1928)
  • "How Russian Soldiers Die" [ru] ("Как умирают русские солдаты") (1854, pub. 1928)
  • "Uncle Zhdanov and Mr. Chernov" ("Дяденька Жданов и кавалер Чернов") (1854, pub. 1932)
  • "Idyll" [de; it] ("Идиллия") (1861–1862, pub. 1911)
  • "Tikhon and Melanya" (1862)
  • Novel set during the reign of Peter the Great (1870–1879) (fragments published as Peter the First, Prince Fyodor Shchetinin, and Hundred Years in 1936)
  • "The Decemberists" (Декабристы) (Planned 1863, written 1878–1879, fragments published 1884)
  • "Who is Right?" ("Кто прав?") (1891–1893, pub. 1911)
  • "Khodynka: An Incident of the Coronation of Nicholas II" ("Ходынка", 1898, published 1912)
  • "Memoirs of a Madman" (1884–1903)
  • "Posthumous Notes of the Hermit Fëdor Kuzmich" ("Посмертные записки старца Федора Кузьмича") (1905, published 1912)
  • "Father Vasily" [de] ("Отец Василий") (1906, pub. 1911)
  • "There Are No Guilty People" (1909)

Plays

Non-fiction

Books

Pamphlets

  • Why Do Men Intoxicate Themselves? (1890)
  • Christianity and Patriotism (1894)
  • The Christian Teaching (1897)
  • Patriotism and Government (1900)
  • The Slavery of Our Times (1900)
  • Need it Be So? (1900)
  • The Only Means (1901)
  • Appeal to the Working People (1902)
  • What Is Religion and What is its Essence? (1902)
  • Bethink Yourselves! (1904)
  • A Great Iniquity (1905)
  • The End of the Age (1905)
  • The Meaning of the Russian Revolution (1907)
  • The Law of Love and the Law of Violence [ru] (1908)
  • The Inevitable Revolution (1909)

Articles

  • Articles written for Tolstoy's Yasnaya Polyana journal on education (1861–1862)
    • "On Methods of Teaching the Rudiments"
    • "A Project of a General Plan for the Establishment of Popular Schools"
    • "Education and Culture"
    • "Are the Peasant Children to Learn to Write from Us?"
    • "The School at Yasnaya Polyana"
    • "Progress and the Definition of Education"
  • "On Popular Education" (1874)
  • "On the Moscow Census" (1882)
  • "Church and State" (1882)
  • "What is the Truth in Art?" (Introduction to a collection of stories, 1886)
  • "What a Christian May Do" (1887)
  • "The Holiday of Enlightenment of the 12th of January" (1889)
  • "Afterward to Kreutzer Sonata" (1890)
  • "On the Relation between the Sexes" (1890)
  • "Thou Shalt Not Kill" (1890)
  • Articles on the Famine
    • "The Terrible Question" (1891)
    • "On the Methods of Aiding the People Who Have Suffered from the Failure of Crops" (1891)
    • "Among the Suffering (Report up to April 12, 1892)" (1892)
    • "Account of the Money Contributed from April 12 to July 27, 1892" (1892)
    • "Conclusion to Last Report on the Aid to the Starving" (1893)
  • "Non-Activity" (1893)
  • "The Persecution of Christians in Russia" (1895)
  • "God or Mammon?" (1895)
  • "Shame!" (1895)
  • Meaningless aspirations (1895)
  • "How to Read the Gospel and What is its Essence?" (1896)
  • "The Beginning of the End" (1897)
  • "Nobel's Bequest" (1897)
  • "Famine or No Famine?" (1898)
  • "Carthago Delenda Est" (1898)
  • "Two Wars" (1898)
  • "Where is the Way Out?: On the Condition of the Laboring Classes" (1900)
  • "On Suicide" (1900)
  • "On the Street Riots" (1901)
  • "Reply to the Holy Synod's Decree of Excommunication" (1901)
  • "The Soldiers' Memento" (1901)
  • "The Officers' Memento" (1901)
  • "To the Tsar and His Associates" (1901)
  • "On Religious Toleration" (1902)
  • "The Great Sin" (1905)
  • "Do Not Kill" (1906)
  • "Love Each Other" (1906)
  • I cannot be silent (1908)
  • "The Only Command" (1909)

Letters and Correspondence

Among Tolstoy's countless letters and pieces of correspondence, the works below consist mostly of those that were published in Tolstoy's lifetime or shortly after his death.

  • Letter to a Revolutionist (1886)
  • Letter to N. N. Engelhard (1887)
  • Letter to a Kind Youth (1887)
  • "Manual Labor and Intellectual Activity": A Letter to a Frenchman, Romain Rolland (1888)
  • Letter to A.V. Vlasov (1889)
  • "On Non-Resistance to Evil" (1890)
  • Letter to Sofia Tolstaya on the Famine (1892)
  • Letters on Henry George (1893)
  • "Religion and Morality": A reply to questions from the German Ethical Society (1894)
  • "Replies to Critics"
    • Letter to the Editor of the Daily Chronicle (1895)
    • Letter to a Polish journalist, Marian Edmundovich (1895)
  • "Reason and Religion" (1895)
  • Correspondence with P. V. Verigin of the Dukhobors (1895–1896)
  • "Patriotism or Peace": A letter to Manson (1896)
  • "Non-Resistance": A letter to Ernest H. Crosby (1896)
  • Letter to the Minister of Internal Affairs and to the Minister of Justice (1896)
  • Letter to the Chief of the Irkutsk Disciplinary Battalion (1896)
  • "On the Deception of the Church" (1896)
  • "A Letter to the Liberals": to Alexandra Kalmykov (1896)
  • Letter to Eugen Heinrich Schmitt (1896)
  • Letter to the Dukhobors in the Caucasus (1897)
  • "Three Phases of Life" (before 1899?)
  • "Concerning the Congress of Peace": A letter to certain Swedes (1899)
  • Letter to a Corporal (1899)
  • "The Commune and the World": A letter to D. A. Khilkov (1899)
  • Correspondence with the Dukhobors in Canada (1899–1900)
  • Letter to Tsar Nicholas II (1900)
  • Letters to Free Thought, a Bulgarian periodical (1901)
  • Letter to the Tolstoy Society of Manchester, England (1901)
  • Letter to an Orthodox Priest (1901)
  • Letter to a French Pastor (1901)
  • "On the Franco-Russian Alliance": A letter to Pietro Mazzini (1901)
  • Letter to the Orthodox Clergy (1903)
  • Letter to a Jew (1903)
  • A Letter to a Hindu, the editor of the magazine Free Hindustan (1908)
  • Correspondence with Gandhi (1909–1910)

Supplements to Works of Others

From Diary

  • "A History of Yesterday" ("История вчерашнего дня") (1851)
  • "Grateful Soil" ("Благодарная почва") (1910)

Pedagogical works

ABC (Азбука) (1872)

Source:

BOOK 1

BOOK 2

  • Part 1. Reading (see Stories for Children)
  • Part 2. Texts in Old East Slavic
    • Excerpts from Nestor's Primary Chronicle
    • Excerpts from Rostovsky's Chetya Minea
    • Excerpts from the Old and New Testaments
  • Part 3. Arithmetic
    • Addition and Subtraction

BOOK 3

  • Part 1. Reading (see Stories for Children)
  • Part 2. Texts in Old East Slavic
    • Excerpts from Nestor's Primary Chronicle
    • Excerpts from the Old and New Testaments
  • Part 3. Arithmetic
    • Multiplication and Division

BOOK 4

  • Part 1. Reading (see Stories for Children)
  • Part 2. Texts in Old East Slavic
    • Excerpts from Nestor's Primary Chronicle
    • Excerpts from Rostovsky's Chetya Minea
    • Excerpts from the Old and New Testaments
  • Part 3. Arithmetic
    • Decimals and Fractions

New ABC & Russian Books for Reading (1875)

Source:

New ABC (Новая Азбука)

  • Combination of phonetic and grammatical instruction with many simple untitled stories and fables
  • Titled Stories (see Stories for Children)
  • Prayers in Old East Slavic

Russian Book for Reading (Русская Книга Для Чтения) (Volumes 1-4)

A collection of stories, most of which appeared in the four original ABC volumes.

References

  1. A letter written with his wife to his wife's younger sister that is treated by critics as a short story.
  2. A non-fictional sketch.
  3. An alteration of Guy de Maupassant's "Port".
  4. Planned but abandoned sequel to War and Peace.
  1. Hilf: a zamlbukh fir liṭeraṭur un ḳunṣt.
  2. "Translator's Note from "The Gospel in Brief" published by T.Y. Crowell". 2001-03-10. Retrieved 2013-12-31.
  3. "On Life". Northwestern University Press. n.d. Retrieved 5 November 2021. This critical edition is the first accurate translation of this unsung classic of Russian thought into English, based on a study of manuscript pages of Tolstoy's drafts, and the first scholarly edition of this work in any language.
  4. Азбука.
  5. "НЭБ - Национальная электронная библиотека".

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