“...U gr. L.N. Tolstoy has his own constant, preconceived idea, as we will see below, but the ways of carrying this idea into literature, treating it and expressing it are so different from the ordinary techniques of business fiction that to look for any kind of solidarity or kinship between two novels of literary production would be completely in vain. The name of Tolstoy (L.N.) is associated with the idea of a writer who has the gift of an extremely subtle analysis of a person’s thoughts and emotional movements and who uses this gift to pursue everything that seems to him artificial, false and conventional in a civilized society ..."