Adolescence of a thick biography
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy was born on September 9, August 28, according to the old style of the year, in the estate of Yasnaya Polyana of the Tula province. Tolstoy was the fourth child in a large noble family, he had three older brother - Nikolai, Sergey and Dmitry, and younger sister Maria. Their mother, nee Princess Volkonskaya, died when Levushka was not even two years old.
The writer had vague memories of her, but her spiritual appearance, according to the stories of loved ones, Tolstoy carefully kept his whole life. And another amazing feature attracted Tolstoy - she never condemned anyone. The servants recalled that, faced with injustice, Maria Nikolaevna used to turn red, even crying, but would never say a rude word. " Tolstoy’s father, a participant in the Patriotic War, who was remembered by the writer with a good-natured-humble character, love of reading, for hunting, also died early by raising children by a distant relative Tatyana Aleksandrovna Ergolskaya.
Until the age of five, Levushka was brought up with girls: sister Masha and the adopted daughter of Tolstoy - Dunechka. When the boy was five years old, he was transferred to the nursery, to the brothers. In childhood, Tolstoy was surrounded by a warm, family atmosphere. Here they cherished with family feelings and willingly gave shelter to loved ones. Tolstoy often recalled his childhood: "The happy, happy, irrevocable time of childhood!
How not to love, not to cherish memories of it? These memories refresh, exalt my soul and serve as a source of the best pleasure for me." Family legends, the first impressions of the life of the noble estate served as rich material for his works and were reflected in the autobiographical story “Childhood”. When L. Tolstoy was 13 years old, the family moved to Kazan, to the house of a relative and guardianship of children P.
in Tolstoy entered the University of Kazan at the Department of the Eastern Languages of the Faculty of Philosophy, then transferred to the Law Faculty, where he studied in less than two years: classes did not cause him a living interest and he surrendered to secular entertainment with passion. In the spring, having given a petition for dismissal from the university “due to upset health and homeless circumstances”, Tolstoy went to Yasnaya Polyana with a firm intention to study the entire course of legal sciences in order to pass the exam by an external, “practical medicine”, languages, agriculture, geographical statistics, write a dissertation and “achieve the highest perfection in music and painting”.
After the summer in the village, disappointed with unsuccessful experience in new, beneficial for fortress conditions, this attempt is captured in the story “The Morning of the Landipient,”, in the fall, Leo Tolstoy went first to Moscow, then to Petersburg to keep candidate exams at the university. The way of his life during this period often changed: either he prepared and passed exams for days, then passionately surrendered to music, then intended to start a bureaucratic career, then dreamed of entering a cadet in the Horse Guard Regiment.
For Tolstoy, it was a time to search for himself. Religious sentiments, reaching asceticism, alternated with sounses, maps, trips to gypsies. In the family he was considered “the most trifling small”, and then he managed to pay off the debts then many years later. However, it was these years that they were painted with intense introspection and the struggle with himself, which is reflected in the diary that Tolstoy led throughout his life.
Then he had a serious desire to write and the first unfinished artistic sketches appeared. Leo Tolstoy himself played a good piano and greatly appreciated his favorite works performed by others. Tolstoy's favorite composers were Bach, Handel and Chopin.
At the end of the x, Tolstoy co -authored with his acquaintance, he composed a waltz, who in the early X performed at the composer Taneyev, who made a musical work of this musical work of the only, composed by Tolstoy.