Father Sergius - Softcover

Tolstoy, Leo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1544620381 ISBN 13: 9781544620381

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

This event appeared extraordinary and inexplicable to those who did not know his inner motives, but for Prince Stepan Kasatsky himself it all occurred so naturally that he could not imagine how he could have acted otherwise. His father, a retired colonel of the Guards, had died when Stepan was twelve, and sorry as his mother was to part from her son, she entered him at the Military College as her deceased husband had intended. The widow herself, with her daughter, Varvara, moved to Petersburg to be near her son and have him with her for the holidays. The boy was distinguished both by his brilliant ability and by his immense self-esteem. He was first both in his studies—especially in mathematics, of which he was particularly fond—and also in drill and in riding. Though of more than average height, he

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One of the world's greatest novelists and moral philosopher. Russian in origin, Tolstoy’s works greatly influenced much of 20th-century literature, and his ethical preaching helped form the thinking of several important spiritual and political leaders.

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• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1544620381
• ISBN 13: 9781544620381
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 52