Published without abbreviationsWar and Peace is one of the highest achievements of the artistic geniusL.N. Tolstoy. The book required a lot of effort from the writer. In 1869, in the drafts of the Epilogue, Tolstoy recalled the "painful and joyful perseverance and excitement" with which he worked for seven years. These were the years of "continuous" - in his own words - and exceptional labor under the best living conditions. , “whose hero was supposed to be a Decembrist, returning with his family to Russia. Involuntarily, I moved from the present to 1825 ... But even in 1825, my hero was already a mature, family man. To understand him, I had to go back to his youth, and his youth coincided with ... the era of 1812 ... If the reason for our triumph was not accidental, but lay in the essence of the character of the Russian people and army, then this character should have been expressed even brighter in the era failures and defeats ... "So Tolstoy gradually came to the need to start the story from 1805.The novel" War and Peace "was a great success. An excerpt from the novel entitled "1805" appeared in the "Russian Messenger" in 1865. In 1868, three of its parts were published, followed shortly by the other two (four volumes in total).CopyrightProducer of the publication: Vladimir Vorobyov© ℗ IP Vorobyov© ℗ ID SOYUZ

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