Sevastopol Stories

Sevastopol Stories is a work from Tolstoy's youth period, in which he tells the story of what he saw and experienced in the Crimean War. Tolstoy came to Sevastopol, one of the most important points in the Crimean War, as a young artillery petty officer, and on this front that shaped his thoughts about the war, he also decided to become a writer. In the three "sketches" he published in Sovremennik magazine in 1855, Tolstoy describes the human dimension of the war, salary and rank calculations, what happened behind the front and all the suffering in plain language and with the calmness of a modern war correspondent. He won the admiration of the Russian people, intellectuals and the Tsardom, and made a name for himself as a writer for the first time by describing the battlefield, which he would later masterfully return to in War and Peace. "In the chaos of war, he had reached the true source of peace; the pen he sharpened with his sword in the square where he left gloriously would be the only weapon he would use from now on."
-Edward Steiner-
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 217

Year of Printing: 2016


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Iletisim Publishing

Number of Pages: 217

First Print Year: 2016

Language Turkish