Childhood. Adolescence. Youth

“When I wrote „Childhood“, it seemed to me that no one before me had felt and depicted the beauty and poetry of childhood so completely» - these words, spoken by L. N. Tolstoy fifty-six years after the completion of the autobiographical trilogy and two years before his death, show what made this work so dear to its extremely demanding author - and why it is so cherished by modern readers of all ages.
The stories are accompanied by illustrations by Alexander Apsit, who conceived a series of drawings for “Childhood. Adolescence. Youth” while Tolstoy was still alive.