Leo Tolstoy bibliography

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

• The Autobiographical Trilogy
  • Childhood (Детство, 1852)
  • Boyhood (Отрочество, 1854)
  • Youth (Юность, 1857)
• Cossacks (Казаки, 1852–1863)
• War and Peace (Война и мир, 1864–1869, rev. 1873)
• Anna Karenina (Анна Каренина, 1873–1877)
• Resurrection (Воскресение, 1889–1899)

Novellas

• Landowner's Morning (Утро помещика, 1856)
• Two Hussars (Два гусара, 1856)
• Family Happiness (Семейное счастье, 1859)
• Polikúshka (Поликушка, 1860)
• Death of Ivan Ilyich (Смерть Ивана Ильича, 1882–1886)
• Walk in the Light While There is Light (Ходите в свете, пока есть свет, 1888)
• Kreutzer Sonata (Крейцерова соната, 1887–1889)
• Devil (Дьявол, 1889, pub. 1911)
• Master and Man (Хозяин и работник, 1895)
• Father Sergius (Отец Сергий, 1890–1898)
• The Forged Coupon (Фальшивый купон, 1902–1904)
• Hadji Murat (Хаджи-Мурат, 1896–1904)

Short stories

• "Raid" ("Набег", 1852)
• "The Cutting of the Forest" (1855)
• "Billiard-marker's Notes" ("Записки маркера", 1855)
• Sevastopol Sketches (Севастопольские рассказы, 1855–1856)
  • "Sevastopol in December 1854" (1855)
  • "Sevastopol in May 1855" (1855)
  • "Sevastopol in August 1855" (1856)
• "Snowstorm" ("Метель", 1856)
• "Meeting a Moscow Acquaintance in the Detachment: From the Caucasian notes of Prince Nekhlyudov" (1856, pub. 1887)
• "Lucerne: From the notes of Prince D. Nekhlyudov" ("Люцерн", 1857)
• "Albert" ("Альберт", 1857)
• "Three Deaths" ("Три смерти", 1858)
• "Excerpts from Stories from Village Life ("Отрывки рассказов из деревенской жизни") (1860–1862, pub. 1932)
• "The Porcelain Doll" (1863)Template:Efn

• "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)
• Template:Interlanguage link ("Корней Васильев", 1905)
• Template:Interlanguage link ("За что?", 1906)
• "What I saw in a Dream" ("Что я видел во сне", 1906)

Folk Tales, Fables and Parables

• "What Men Live By" ("Чем люди живы", 1881)
• "Where Love Is, God Is" ("Где любовь, там и бог", 1885)
• "Two Brothers and Gold" (Два брата и золото) (1885)
• "Neglected Fire Can't be Extinguished" (aka "Quench the Spark") ("Упустишь огонь, не потушишь", 1885)
• "Two Old Men" ("Два старика", 1885)
• "Candle" ("Свечка", 1885)
• "Tale of a Fool" (aka "Ivan the Fool") ("Сказка об дураке", 1885)
• "Three Hermits" ("Три Старца", 1885)
• Stories for Lubki picture books (1885)
  • "Evil Allures, But Good Endures" (lit. "Enemy is Crafty, but God is Strong") ("Вражье лепко, а божье крепко")
  • "Little Girls are Wiser than Old Men" ("Девчонки умнее стариков")
  • "Ilyás" ("Ильяс")
• "How the Imp Earned the Crust" ("Как чертёнок краюшку выкупал", 1886)

• "Penitent Sinner" ("Кающийся грешник", 1886)
• "Grain as Big as a Chicken's Egg" ("Зерно с куриное яйцо", 1886)
• "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" ("Много ли человеку земли нужно", 1886)
• "Godson" ("Крестник", 1886)
• "Three Sons" ("Три сына", 1887)
• "Emelyan the Laborer and the Empty Drum" ("Работник Емельян и пустой барабан", 1891)
• "Dream of a Young Tsar" ("Сон молодого царя") (1894, pub. 1912)
• Three Untitled Parables (Три притчи) (1895)
• "Destruction and Restoration of Hell" ("Разрушение ада и восстановление его", 1902)
• Stories for Sholem Aleichem's Help: An Anthology for Literature and Art to aid the victims of the Kishinev pogrom (1903)
  • "Esarhaddon, King of Assyria" ("Ассирийский царь Асархадон")
  • "Work, Death, and Sickness"
  • "Three Questions" ("Три вопроса")

Adaptations

• "Croesus and Fate" (adaptation of the Greek legend) (1886)
• "Françoise" (adaptation of a story by Guy de Maupassant) ("Франсуаза", 1891)Template:Efn
• "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)
• "Thief's Son" (adaptation of "Abused Before Christmas" by Nikolai Leskov) (1906)
• "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.
    • Fool (Poem)
    • Svyatogor Bogatyr (Bylina)
• 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.
    • Foundation of Rome
    • How the Geese Saved Rome
    • Polycrates of Samos
    • God Sees the Truth, But Waits
  • 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

• "Karma" (Adaptation of a Hindu Tale) ("Карма", 1894)
• Template:Interlanguage link ("Две различные версии истории улья с лубочной крышкой") (1900, pub. 1912)
• "Wolf" ("Волк") (1908)

Unfinished

• "A Christmas Night" ("Святочная ночь") (1853, pub. 1928)
• Template:Interlanguage link ("Как умирают русские солдаты") (1854, pub. 1928)
• "Uncle Zhdanov and Mr. Chernov" ("Дяденька Жданов и кавалер Чернов") (1854, pub. 1932)
• Template:Interlanguage link ("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)Template:Efn
• "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)
• Template:Interlanguage link ("Отец Василий") (1906, pub. 1911)
• "There Are No Guilty People" (1909)

Drama

Plays

• The Power of Darkness (Власть тьмы, 1886)
• The First Distiller (1886)
• The Fruits of Enlightenment (Плоды просвещения, 1889)
• The Light Shines in Darkness (unfinished, 1890)
• The Living Corpse (Живой труп, 1900; a.k.a. Redemption)
• The Cause of It All (1910)

Dialogues

• "Wisdom of Children"
• Template:Interlanguage link ("Проезжий и крестьянин", 1909, published 1917)

Non-fiction

Books

• Religious Treatise in Three Volumes (untitled)
  • Introduction: A Confession (1879–1880)
  • Vol. 1: A Criticism of Dogmatic Theology (1880–1882)
  • Vol. 2: The Four Gospels Harmonized and Translated (1880–1882)
    • The Gospel in Brief (Containing only the summaries and translations from Vol. 2) (1882)
  • Vol. 3: What I Believe (aka My Religion) (1884)
• What Shall We Do Then? (1886)
• On Life (1887)
• Power and Liberty (1888)
• The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1891–1894)
• What Is Art? (1897)
• Shakespeare and the Drama (1909)
• A Calendar of Wisdom (compilation; 1909)

Pamphlets

• Why Do Men Intoxicate Themselves? (1890)
• Christianity and Patriotism (1894)
• The Christian Teaching (1895)
• Patriotism and Government (1900)
• The Slavery of Our Times (1900)
• Need it Be So? (1900)
• The Only Means (1901)
• What Is Religion and What is its Essence? (1902)
• Appeal to the Working People (1902)
• Appeal to the Clergy (1902)
• Bethink Yourselves! (1904)
• A Great Iniquity (1905)
• The End of the Age (1905)
• The Meaning of the Russian Revolution (1907)
• Template:Ill (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)
• 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 [Бессмысленные мечтания] (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)
• "Thou Shalt Not Kill" (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 Crisis in Russia" (1905)
• "Do Not Kill" (1906)
• "Love Each Other" (1906)
• I cannot be silent (1908)
• "The Only Command" (1909)
• "Three Days in the Village" ("Три дня в деревне", 1910)Template:Efn
• "Singing In The Village" ("Песни на деревне", 1910)
• "A Talk With A Wayfarer" ("Разговор с прохожим", 1910)

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

• "To N. N. Ge's Painting: 'Christ's Last Discourse with His Disciples'" (1886)
• Supplementary essay for Timofei Bondarev's The Triumph of the Farmer or Industry and Parasitism (1888)
• "Apropos of A. I. Ershov's Book Recollections from Sevastopol" (1889)
• Introduction to the Russian translation of Alice Stockham's Tokology: A Book for Every Woman (1890)
• "The First Step": An introduction to the Russian translation of Howard Williams's The Ethics of Diet (1891)
• Introduction to Henri-Frédéric Amiel's Journal (1893)
• Introduction to The Works of Guy de Maupassant (1894)
• Introduction to S. T. Semenov's Peasant Stories (1894)
• Epilogue to Drozhzhin's Life and Death (1895)
• "Help!": A postscript to "An Appeal to Help the Dukhobors Persecuted in the Caucasus" written by associates of Tolstoy (1896)
• Preface to Carpenter's article, "Modern Science" (1898)
• Introduction to W. von Polenz's Der Büttnerbauer (1902)

From Diary

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

Pedagogical works

ABC (Азбука) (1872)

Source:

BOOK 1

• Part 1. Alphabet and Phonics
• Part 2. Reading (see Stories for Children)
• Part 3. 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 4. Arithmetic

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.

External links

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