249 — 50.

3 Troyat, p. 319.

4 See L. N. Tolstoy, Smert’ Ivana Ilyicha (Letchworth: Bradda Books, 1966), introduction by Michael Beresford, p. 14.

5 See Wilson, p. 471.

6 See Troyat, p. 691.

Further Reading

Bayley, John, Tolstoy and the Novel (London: Chatto & Windus, 1966).

Benson, Ruth Crego, Women in Tolstoy: The Ideal and the Erotic (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, and Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1973).

Berlin, Isaiah, The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy’s View of History (1953; reprinted, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1966).

Bloom, Harold, ed., Leo Tolstoy: Modern Critical Views (New York: Chelsea House, 1986).

Christian, R. F., Tolstoy: A Critical Introduction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969).

Donskov, Andrew, ed., Lev Tolstoy and the Concept of Brotherhood (Ottawa: Legas, 1996).

Egan, David R., and Melinda A. Egan, eds., Leo Tolstoy: An Annotated Bibliography of English Language Sources to 1978 (Netuchen, New Jersey and London: Scarecrow Press, 1979).

— , Leo Tolstoy: An Annotated Bibliography of English Language Sources from 1978to 2003 (Lanham, Toronto and Oxford: Scarecrow Press, 2005).

Eykhenbaum, Boris, The Young Tolstoi, trans. and ed. Gary Kern (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ardis, 1972).

Gifford, Henry, ed., Leo Tolstoy: A Critical Anthology (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1971).

Gustafson, Richard F., Leo Tolstoy, Resident and Stranger: A Study in Fiction and Theology (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986).

Jones, Malcolm, ed., New Essays on Tolstoy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978).

Knowles, A. V., ed., Tolstoy: The Critical Heritage (London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978).

McLean, Hugh, ed., In the Shade of the Giant: Essays on Tolstoy, California Slavic Studies (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989).

Matlaw, Ralph E., ed., Tolstoy: A Collection of Critical Essays (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1967).

Maude, Aylmer, The Life of Tolstoy, 2 vols. (London: Constable, 1908 — 10; reprinted in I vol., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987).

Mjøor, Johan Kare, Desire, Death, and Imitation: Narrative Patterns in the Late Tolstoy, Slavica Bergensia 4(Bergen: University of Bergen Press, 2002).

Orwin, Donna Tussing, Tolstoy’s Art and Thought, 1847 — 1880(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993).

— , ed., The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).

Rancour-Laferriere, Daniel, Tolstoy on the Couch: Misogyny, Masochism and the Absent Mother (New York: New York University Press, 1998).

Rowe, William W., Leo Tolstoy (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1986).

Sankovitch, Natasha, Creating and Recovering Experience: Repetition in Tolstoy (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998).

Shestov, Lev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Nietzsche (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1969).

Shklovsky, Victor, Lev Tolstoy, trans. Olga Shartse (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1978).

Silbajoris, Rimvydas, Tolstoy’s Aesthetics and His Art (Columbus, Ohio: Slavica Publishers, 1991).

Simmons, Ernest J., Leo Tolstoy (New York: Vintage, 1960).

Sorokin, Boris, Tolstoy in Prerevolutionary Russian Criticism (Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 1979).

Steiner, George, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky: An Essay in the Old Criticism, 2nd edition (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996).

Tolstoy Studies Journal, 1988 — present. In addition to many articles, the journal (published annually) contains an annotated bibliography. For a list of the articles published in TSJ, see its website at www.tolstoystudies.org, which also contains many other materials related to Tolstoy, including a list of film versions of his works.

Wasiolek, Edward, Tolstoy’s Major Fiction (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978).

— , ed., Critical Essays on Tolstoy (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1986). Wilson, A. N., Tolstoy (London: Penguin, and New York: W. W. Norton, 1988).

THE RAID

A Volunteer’s Story

1

On July 12th Captain Khlopov came through the low door of my mud hut, complete with epaulettes and sabre. This was the first time I had seen him in full dress uniform since my arrival in the Caucasus.

‘I’ve come straight from the colonel’s,’ he said in reply to my quizzical look. ‘Our battalion is moving out tomorrow.’

‘Where to?’ I asked.

‘To N — . All the forces are to assemble there.’

‘And from there they’ll make some sort of attack, will they?’

‘I think so.’

‘But in which direction? What do you think?’

‘What should I think? I’m telling you what I know. Last night a Tartar galloped over from the general with orders for the battalion to move out with two days’ biscuit rations. As to where, why and for how long - well, we don’t ask such questions, my friend. Orders are orders and that’s that.’

‘But if you are taking rations for only two days, that means the troops won’t be away longer than that, doesn’t it?’

‘No, it doesn’t mean a thing ...’

‘Why not?’ I asked, very surprised.

‘Because that’s how it is here. When we went to Dargo we took a week’s rations, but we were there almost a month!’

‘Can I go with you?’ I asked, after a brief silence.

‘Yes, you can, but I wouldn’t advise it.