“It’s easier to live without love” are the memories of a man who “killed in a duel in order to kill, lost at cards, ate up the labors of men, executed them, fornicated, deceived,” but always strived for the good and, appreciating the past, sincerely repented of everything he had done. Starting to present the “touching and instructive” story of his life, L. N. Tolstoy wrote: “I think that such a biography written by me will be more useful for people than all the artistic chatter that fills my 12 volumes of works...” Before you is a confession a warm heart that rushed from unbelief to the denial of art, but always strived for inner truth: “When I thought about writing the whole true truth, without hiding anything bad in my life, I was horrified by the impression that such a thing would have to make.” biography.”