This book is dedicated to one of the most prominent figures of the 20th century, the Russian genius - Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy. Its author, a scholar of literature and cultural studies, Nina Alekseevna Nikitina, who has been studying the phenomenon of this global personality for many years, invites readers to consider the portrait of the classic of Russian and world literature in the context of his everyday life. What, if not the environment, the details of everyday life, habits, the very same wheel of everyday life that turns day after day, allows us to better understand the character of a genius, to look into the hard-to-reach corners of his soul? N.A. Nikitina managed to create a three-dimensional portrait of Tolstoy: a writer, family man, teacher, owner of Yasnaya Polyana, hunter, gourmet and at the same time a great man, tired of the burden of fame, overwhelmed by doubts, temptations, passions, illnesses and fear of death.