You have to imagine Leo Tolstoy without a beard, and without an ideal. At the most he knows at 19, this aristocrat whose father had fought the French invader, that he was not born to waste his time. “I would be the most unhappy of men, he notes, if I did not find a purpose in my life – a general and profitable purpose. » He read, attended the salons a little, vaguely studied Arabic and Persian, but, in 1847, it was above all a “rural gentleman” who inherited the vast estate of Isnaïa Polyana, 200 kilometers south of Moscow. . Is that a goal at that age? The young Count Tolstoy quickly loses a fortune gambling. He still has to do what the romantics do: go to the Caucasus, where war is declared.
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