Thoughts Evoked By The Census Of Moscow (annotated)

by Leo Tolstoy and Lev Tolstoy

Book Overview

I had lived all my life out of town. When, in 1881, I went to live in Moscow, the poverty of the town greatly surprised me. I am familiar with poverty in the country; but city poverty was new and incomprehensible to me. In Moscow it was impossible to pass along the street without encountering beggars, and especially beggars who are unlike those in the country. These beggars do not go about with their pouches in the name of Christ, as country beggars...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 151877721X
• ISBN13: 9781518777219
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

The essence of later Tolstoy

What a pity that this book is so expensive. Check it out from a university library. It's not "War and Peace" but it does contain the essence of later Tolstoy. With fervent humanism and more than a little aristocratic guilt, the great writer asks how we are to deal with the poor among us. His first remedy upon meeting a beggar -- giving the man all his money -- doesn't seem to change much so he begins a deep examination of the problem of inequality in human life, asking questions we might all do well to consider.