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Childhood. Adolescence. After the Ball. Prisoner of the Caucasus – Leo Tolstoy – IS – 2025 – ISBN 978-5-17-983203-4

Childhood. Adolescence. After the Ball. Prisoner of the Caucasus
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Childhood. Adolescence. After the Ball. Prisoner of the Caucasus
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The book includes the stories Childhood (1852) and Boyhood (1854), the short stories Prisoner of the Caucasus (1872) and After the Ball (1886).

The reader meets Nikolenka Irtenyev, a kind, affectionate boy who loves his parents and everyone in the world and is interested in absolutely everything that surrounds him. The writer explores the behavior, thoughts and feelings of the child at different moments in his life, shows the stages of his growing up and personality development.

The story Prisoner of the Caucasus about Russian officers Zhilin and Kostylin in captivity among the highlanders is partly based on real events that happened to L. N. Tolstoy during his service in the Caucasus.

The story After the Ball is based on events that happened to L. Tolstoy's older brother Sergei. Sergei Nikolaevich was in love with the daughter of a military commander and visited their house. But after he saw the beating of a runaway soldier under the leadership of the girl's father, the lover's feelings quickly cooled, and he abandoned his intention to marry her.
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