Confession

"Confession" is a widely known work by the great Russian writer L.N. Tolstoy (1828-1910). In it, the author speaks with utmost honesty about his life, trying to summarize years of inner work and express a new understanding of the meaning and significance of life, born from painful and passionate searches. L.N. Tolstoy describes in detail the history of his spiritual quests. He traverses a thorny path from superficial youthful nihilism and imposed disbelief to the existential crisis of adulthood, which was linked to the realization of the inevitability of death, rendering any human aspirations futile. The question that troubled the famous writer was posed with maximum simplicity and honesty: is there a meaning to life that is not destroyed by the inevitability of death? L.N. Tolstoy understood that the service to art, the progress of humanity, and the people around him loses its foundation without an understanding of the overall meaning of life as an ontological phenomenon.