ETERNAL PROBLEMS IN L.N. TOLSTOY’S CAUCASIAN STORIES (“RAID”, “LOGGING”, “DEMOTED”)

Abstract

The article studies the artistic world of L.N. Tolstoy and the disclosure of eternal problems in his Caucasian stories. The writer’s soul ached for the fact that two hypostases exist in a person, as it were, in parallel – genuine and imaginary, and the latter often takes precedence over the first. Tolstoy is against the war, he shows its inhumanity, ruthlessness, depicting the war “in blood, suffering, death.” It shows that bravery is not so much the power of personal courage as a certain moral core of a person, the expression of the whole personal appearance, the whole spiritual life. L. Tolstoy, the bearer of the world-human denial of war, refutes its very logic by the complete disgust of the moral consciousness of ordinary people from it, to whom he, as a person, treats with deep sympathy, and as an artist “entrusts” his attitude to the world and the philosophical concept of reality. Tolstoy, a great humanist, believing in man, loving and trusting him, bowing his head before the power of the universe – Nature, asked eternal questions of Being. As a result, the writer comes to the idea that life should be loved in all its manifestations.