Leo Tolstoy bibliography explained

This is a list of works by Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910), including his novels, novellas, short stories, fables and parables, plays, and nonfiction.

Prose fiction

Novels

• The Autobiographical Trilogy
  • Childhood (Детство, 1852)
  • Boyhood (Отрочество, 1854)
  • Youth (Юность, 1856)
• Cossacks (Казаки, 1852–1863)
• War and Peace (Война и мир, 1864–1869, rev. 1873)
• Anna Karenina (Анна Каренина, 1873–1877)
• Resurrection (Воскресение, 1889–1899)
• Hadji Murat (Хаджи-Мурат, 1896–1904)

Novellas

• Two Hussars (Два гусара, 1856)
• Family Happiness (Семейное счастье, 1859)
• Polikúshka (Поликушка, 1860)
• Death of Ivan Ilyich (Смерть Ивана Ильича, 1882–1886)
• Walk in the Light While There is Light (Ходите в свете, пока есть свет, 1888)
• Kreutzer Sonata (Крейцерова соната, 1887–1889)
• Devil (Дьявол, 1889, pub. 1911)
• Master and Man (Хозяин и работник, 1895)
• Father Sergius (Отец Сергий, 1890–1898)
• The Forged Coupon (Фальшивый купон, 1902–1904)

Short stories

• "Raid" ("Набег", 1852)
• "The Cutting of the Forest" (1855)
• "Billiard-marker's Notes" ("Записки маркера", 1855)
• Sevastopol Sketches (Севастопольские рассказы, 1855–1856)
  • "Sevastopol in December 1854" (1855)
  • "Sevastopol in May 1855" (1855)
  • "Sevastopol in August 1855" (1856)
• "Landowner's Morning" (Утро помещика, 1856)
• "Snowstorm" ("Метель", 1856)
• "Meeting a Moscow Acquaintance in the Detachment: From the Caucasian notes of Prince Nekhlyudov" (1856, pub. 1887)
• "Lucerne: From the notes of Prince D. Nekhlyudov" ("Люцерн", 1857)
• "Albert" ("Альберт", 1857)
• "Three Deaths" ("Три смерти", 1858)
• "Excerpts from Stories from Village Life ("Отрывки рассказов из деревенской жизни") (1860–1862, pub. 1932)
• "The Porcelain Doll" (1863)

• "Kholstomer" (aka "Strider") ("Холстомер", 1863–1886)
• "Nicholas Stick" (1886)
• "A Dialogue Among Clever People" (used as an introduction to the novella Walk in the Light...) (1892)
• "After the Ball" ("После бала", 1903)
• "Alyosha the Pot" ("Алёша Горшок", 1905)
• "Berries" ("Ягоды") (1905)
• "Divine and Human" ("Божеское и человеческое", 1905)
• "Korney Vasiliev" ("Корней Васильев") (1905)
• "Why?" ("За что?", 1906)
• "What I saw in a Dream" ("Что я видел во сне", 1906)
• "Traveler and Peasant" ("Проезжий и крестьянин", 1909, published 1917)
• "Three Days in the Village" ("Три дня в деревне", 1910)
• "Singing In The Village" ("Песни на деревне", 1910)
• "A Talk With A Wayfarer" ("Разговор с прохожим", 1910)

Folk Tales, Fables and Parables

• "What Men Live By" ("Чем люди живы", 1881)
• "Where Love Is, God Is" ("Где любовь, там и бог", 1885)
• "Two Brothers and Gold" (Два брата и золото) (1885)
• "Neglected Fire Can't be Extinguished" (aka "Quench the Spark") ("Упустишь огонь, не потушишь", 1885)
• "Two Old Men" ("Два старика", 1885)
• "Candle" ("Свечка", 1885)
• "Tale of a Fool" (aka "Ivan the Fool") ("Сказка об дураке", 1885)
• "Three Hermits" ("Три Старца", 1885)
• "How the Imp Earned the Crust" ("Как чертёнок краюшку выкупал", 1886)
• "Penitent Sinner" ("Кающийся грешник", 1886)
• "Grain as Big as a Chicken's Egg" ("Зерно с куриное яйцо", 1886)

• "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" ("Много ли человеку земли нужно", 1886)
• "Godson" ("Крестник", 1886)
• "Three Sons" ("Три сына", 1887)
• "Emelyan the Laborer and the Empty Drum" ("Работник Емельян и пустой барабан", 1891)
• "Dream of a Young Tsar" ("Сон молодого царя") (1894, pub. 1912)
• Three Untitled Parables (Три притчи) (1895)
• "Destruction and Restoration of Hell" ("Разрушение ада и восстановление его", 1902)
• Stories for Sholem Aleichem's Help: An Anthology for Literature and Art to aid the victims of the Kishinev pogrom (1903)
  • "Esarhaddon, King of Assyria" ("Ассирийский царь Асархадон")
  • "Work, Death, and Sickness"
  • "Three Questions" ("Три вопроса")

Adaptations

• "Croesus and Fate" (adaptation of the Greek legend) (1886)
• "Françoise" (adaptation of a story by Guy de Maupassant) ("Франсуаза", 1891)
• "The Coffee-House of Surat" (adaptation of a story by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre) ("Суратская кофейная", 1893)
• "Too Dear!" (adaption of a story by Guy de Maupassant) ("Дорого стоит", 1897)
• "Poor People" (adaptation of a story by Victor Hugo) ("Бедные люди") (1905)
• "Power of Childhood" (adaptation of Hugo's poem, "La guerre civile") ("Сила детства", 1908, pub. 1912)

Stories for Children

Most children's stories (such as "A Prisoner in the Caucuses") are contained in the ABC and New ABC books shown in the Pedagogical Works section. Below are the stories not published in the ABC and New ABC books.

• Stories for Lubki picture books (1885)
  • "Evil Allures, But Good Endures" (lit. "Enemy is Crafty, but God is Strong") ("Вражье лепко, а божье крепко")
  • "Little Girls are Wiser than Old Men" ("Девчонки умнее стариков")
  • "Ilyás" ("Ильяс")
• Additional Stories and Fables
  • "Karma" (Adaptation of a Hindu Tale) ("Карма", 1894)
  • "Two Different Versions of the History of the Beehive" ("Две различные версии истории улья с лубочной крышкой") (1900, pub. 1912)
  • "Wolf" ("Волк") (1908)

Unfinished

• "A Christmas Night" ("Святочная ночь") (1853, pub. 1928)
• "How Russian Soldiers Die" ("Как умирают русские солдаты") (1854, pub. 1928)
• "Uncle Zhdanov and Mr. Chernov" ("Дяденька Жданов и кавалер Чернов") (1854, pub. 1932)
• "Idyll" ("Идиллия") (1861–1862, pub. 1911)
• "Tikhon and Melanya" (1862)
• Novel set during the reign of Peter the Great (1870–1879) (fragments published as Peter the First, Prince Fyodor Shchetinin, and Hundred Years in 1936)
• "The Decemberists" (Декабристы) (Planned 1863, written 1878–1879, fragments published 1884)
• "Who is Right?" ("Кто прав?") (1891–1893, pub. 1911)
• "" ("Ходынка", 1898, published 1912)
• "Memoirs of a Madman" (1884–1903)
• "Posthumous Notes of the Hermit Fëdor Kuzmich" ("Посмертные записки старца Федора Кузьмича") (1905, published 1912)
• "Father Vasily" ("Отец Василий") (1906, pub. 1911)
• "There Are No Guilty People" (1909)

Plays

• The Power of Darkness (Власть тьмы, 1886)
• The First Distiller (1886)
• The Fruits of Enlightenment (Плоды просвещения, 1889)
• The Light Shines in Darkness (unfinished, 1890)
• The Living Corpse (Живой труп, 1900)
• The Cause of It All (1910)

Non-fiction

Books and pamphlets

• Religious Treatise in Four Volumes (untitled)
  • 1. A Confession (1879–1880)^[1]
  • 2. A Criticism of Dogmatic Theology (1880–1882)
  • 3. The Four Gospels Harmonized and Translated (1880–1882)
    • The Gospel in Brief (Containing the summaries and translations of the more scholarly above work) (1882)
  • 4. What I Believe (aka My Religion) (1884)
• What Shall We Do Then? (1886)
• On Life (1887)^[2]
• Power and Liberty (1888)
• Why Do Men Intoxicate Themselves? (1890)
• The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1891–1894)
• Christianity and Patriotism (1894)
• The Christian Teaching (1897)
• What Is Art? (1897)
• Patriotism and Government (1900)

• Where is the Way Out?: On the Condition of the Laboring Classes (1900)
• Need it Be So? (1900)
• The Slavery of Our Times (1900)https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/leo-tolstoy-the-slavery-of-our-times
• The Only Means (1901)
• On Religious Toleration (1902)
• What Is Religion and What is its Essence? (1902)
• To the Working People (1902)
• Bethink Yourselves! (1904)
• The Only Need (1905)https://books.google.com/books/about/The_One_Thing_Needful.html?id=27I4AQAAMAAJ
• (1908) https://archive.org/details/LawOfLoveAndLawOfViolence_LevTolstoy
• Shakespeare and the Drama (1909)
• The Inevitable Revolution (1909)
• A Calendar of Wisdom (Путь Жизни [''Put' Zhizni'']; compilation; 1909)

Articles

• Articles written for Tolstoy's Yasnaya Polyana journal on education (1861–1862)
  • "On Methods of Teaching the Rudiments"
  • "A Project of a General Plan for the Establishment of Popular Schools"
  • "Education and Culture"
  • "Are the Peasant Children to Learn to Write from Us?"
  • "The School at Yasnaya Polyana"
  • "Progress and the Definition of Education"
• "On Popular Education" (1874)
• "On the Moscow Census" (1882)
• "Church and State" (1882)
• "What is the Truth in Art?" (Introduction to a collection of stories, 1886)
• "What a Christian May Do" (1887)
• "The Holiday of Enlightenment of the 12th of January" (1889)
• "Afterward to Kreutzer Sonata" (1890)
• "On the Relation between the Sexes" (1890)
• Articles on the Famine
  • "The Terrible Question" (1891)
  • "On the Methods of Aiding the People Who Have Suffered from the Failure of Crops" (1891)
  • "Among the Suffering (Report up to April 12, 1892)" (1892)
  • "Account of the Money Contributed from April 12 to July 27, 1892" (1892)
  • "Conclusion to Last Report on the Aid to the Starving" (1893)

• "Non-Activity" (1893)
• "The Persecution of Christians in Russia" (1895)
• "God or Mammon?" (1895)
• "Shame!" (1895)
• Meaningless aspirations [''Бессмысленные мечтания''] (1895)
• "The Approach of the End" (1896)
• "How to Read the Gospel and What is its Essence?" (1896)
• "Nobel's Bequest" (1897)
• "Famine or No Famine?" (1898)
• "Carthago Delenda Est" (1898)
• "Two Wars" (1898)
• "Thou Shalt Not Kill" (1900)
• "On Suicide" (1900)
• "On the Street Riots" (1901)
• "Reply to the Holy Synod's Decree of Excommunication" (1901)
• "The Soldiers' Memento" (1901)
• "The Officers' Memento" (1901)
• "To the Tsar and His Associates" (1901)
• I cannot be silent [''Не могу молчать''] (1908)

Letters and Correspondence

• Letter to a Revolutionist (1886)
• Letter to N. N. Engelhard (1887)
• Letter to a Kind Youth (1887)
• "A Letter to a Frenchman" (1888)
• Letter to A.V. Vlasov (1889)
• "On Non-Resistance to Evil" (1890)
• Letter to Sofia Tolstaya on the Famine (1892)
• Letters on Henry George (1893)
• "Religion and Morality": A reply to questions from the German Ethical Society (1894)
• "Replies to Critics"
  • Letter to the Editor of the Daily Chronicle (1895)
  • Letter to a Polish journalist, Marian Edmundovich (1895)
• "Reason and Religion" (1895)
• Correspondence with P. V. Verigin of the Dukhobors (1895–1896)
• "Patriotism or Peace": A letter to Manson (1896)
• "Non-Resistance": A letter to Ernest H. Crosby (1896)
• Letter to the Minister of Internal Affairs and to the Minister of Justice (1896)
• Letter to the Chief of the Irkutsk Disciplinary Battalion (1896)
• "On the Deception of the Church" (1896)

• "A Letter to the Liberals": to Alexandra Kalmykov (1896)
• Letter to Eugen Heinrich Schmitt (1896)
• Letter to the Dukhobors in the Caucasus (1897)
• "Three Phases of Life" (before 1899?)
• "Concerning the Congress of Peace": A letter to certain Swedes (1899)
• Letter to a Corporal (1899)
• "The Commune and the World": A letter to D. A. Khilkov (1899)
• Correspondence with the Dukhobors in Canada (1899–1900)
• Letter to Tsar Nicholas II (1900)
• Letters to Free Thought, a Bulgarian periodical (1901)
• Letter to Georgi Shopov (1901)
• Letter to the Tolstoy Society of Manchester, England (1901)
• Letter to an Orthodox Priest (1901)
• Letter to a French Pastor (1901)
• "On the Franco-Russian Alliance": A letter to Pietro Mazzini (1901)
• Letter to a Jew (1903)
• A Letter to a Hindu, the editor of the magazine Free Hindustan (1908)
• Correspondence with Gandhi (1909–1910)

Supplements to Works of Others

• "To N. N. Ge's Painting: 'Christ's Last Discourse with His Desciples'" (1886)
• Supplementary essay for Timofei Bondarev's The Triumph of the Farmer or Industry and Parasitism (1888)
• "Apropos of A. I. Ershov's Book Recollections from Sevastopol" (1889)
• Introduction to the Russian translation of Alice Stockham's Tokology: A Book for Every Woman (1890)
• "The First Step": An introduction to the Russian translation of Howard Williams's The Ethics of Diet (1891)
• Introduction to Henri-Frédéric Amiel's Journal (1893)
• Introduction to The Works of Guy de Maupassant (1894)
• Introduction to S. T. Semenov's Peasant Stories (1894)
• Epilogue to Drozhzhin's Life and Death (1895)
• "Help!": A postscript to "An Appeal to Help the Dukhobors Persecuted in the Caucasus" written by associates of Tolstoy (1896)
• Preface to Carpenter's article, "Modern Science" (1898)
• Introduction to W. von Polenz's Der Büttnerbauer (1902)

From Diary

• "A History of Yesterday" ("История вчерашнего дня") (1851)
• "Grateful Soil" ("Благодарная почва") (1910)

Untranslated Works

• The Great Sin (Великий грех, 1905)
• Do Not Kill (1906)
• Love Each Other (1906)
• The Only Command (1909)
• To the Orthodox Clergy (1903)

Pedagogical works

ABC (Азбука)^[3] (1872)

BOOK 1

• Part 1. Alphabet and Phonics
• Part 2. Reading
  • I. (22 Fables)
  • II.
    • The Sea
    • Blind and Deaf
    • How I stopped being afraid of Blind Beggars
    • Mouse-girl
    • Lipunyushka
  • III.
    • Elephant
    • Chinese Queen Silinchi
    • How the Bukharians Learned to Breed Silkworms
    • Eskimos
    • From Speed Comes Power
    • How they Repaired a House in the City of Paris
    • Where Does the Water from the Sea Go?
  • IV.
    • Fool (Poem)
    • Svyatogor Bogatyr (Bylina)
• Part 3. Texts in Old East Slavic
  • Excerpts from Nestor’s Primary Chronicle
  • Excerpts from Rostovsky’s Chetya Minea
  • Excerpts from the Old and New Testaments
• Part 4. Arithmetic

BOOK 2

• Part 1. Reading
  • I. (25 Fables)
  • II.
    • Girl and mushrooms
    • What kind of dew is on the grass?
    • The Indian and the Englishman (American story)
    • Old Horse
    • Orel (American)
    • Bear on a cart
    • Mad dog
    • Vest
    • The Lion and the Dog (American)
    • Sparrow
    • The Bishop and the Robber (Victor Hugo)
    • Lozina
    • 1000 Gold (French)
  • III.
    • Grass Snake (folk)
    • Luck (Indian)
    • Two brothers (Arabic)
    • Peter the Great and the Muzhik (Bezsonovo)
    • Three Thieves (Gebel)
    • An Equal Inheritance
  • IV.
    • Shat and Don (folk)
    • Volga and Vazuza (Vladimir Dal)
    • Sudoma (Perevlessky)
    • Golden-haired princess (Chizhov)
    • Cambyses and Psamenit (Herodotus)
    • Yermak
    • Owl and Hare
    • How Wolves Teach Their Children
    • Sparrow and swallows (Perevlessky)
    • Shark (American)
  • V. (Science Stories)
    • How a man removed a stone
    • Rolled cigarette
    • Warmth I
    • Warmth II
    • Warmth III
    • Why is there wind?
    • What is the wind for?
    • Why do windows sweat and there is dew?
    • Touch and vision
    • Magnetism I
    • Magnetism II
    • Magnetism III
  • VI. Sukhman (Bylina)
• Part 2. Texts in Old East Slavic
  • Excerpts from Nestor's Primary Chronicle
  • Excerpts from Rostovsky's Chetya Minea
  • Excerpts from the Old and New Testaments
• Part 3. Arithmetic
  • Addition and Subtraction

BOOK 3

• Part 1. Reading
  • I. - V. (19 Fables)
  • VI.
    • King's son and his comrades (Turkish)
    • The Righteous Judge (eastern fairy tale)
    • How a Man Divided Geese
    • Severe Punishment (Arabic)
    • The Tsar's Brothers (Gebel)
  • VII.
    • How I Learned to Ride
    • Soldier's Household
  • VIII. (Stories of My Dogs)
    • Bulka
    • Bulka and Boar
    • Pheasants
    • Milton and Bulka
    • Turtle
    • Bulka and Wolf
    • What Happened to Bulka in Pyatigorsk
    • The End of Bulka and Milton
    • Rusak
  • IX.
    • Foundation of Rome
    • How the Geese Saved Rome
    • Polycrates of Samos
    • God Sees the Truth, But Waits
  • X. (Science Stories)
    • Apple Trees
    • Bugs
    • Hare and Hound
    • Hares and Wolves
    • Senses
    • Why Does Frost Crack Trees?
    • Dampness I
    • Dampness II
    • Different Connections of Particles
    • Ice, Water and Steam
    • Crystals
  • XI. Volga Bogatyr (Bylina)
• Part 2. Texts in Old East Slavic
  • Excerpts from Nestor's Primary Chronicle
  • Excerpts from the Old and New Testaments
• Part 3. Arithmetic
  • Multiplication and Division

BOOK 4

• Part 1. Reading
  • I. (12 Fables)
  • II.
    • The King and the shirt (Arabic)
    • Why is there evil in the world (Indian)
    • Raven and little crows (Lithuanian)
    • The Wolf and the Man (folk)
    • The Tsar's New Dress (H. C. Andersen)
  • III.
    • Jump (American)
    • Hunting is Worse than Slavery (aka "The Bear Hunt")
      • IV. A Prisoner in the Caucasus V. (Science Stories)
    • Fox tail
    • Silkworm
    • Old poplar
    • Bird cherry
    • How the trees walk
    • Specific gravity
    • Harmful air
    • Gases I
    • Gases II
    • How to make balloons
    • An Aeronaut's Tale
    • Galvanism
    • The sun is warm
  • VI. Mikulushka Selyaninovich (Bylina)
• Part 2. Texts in Old East Slavic
  • Excerpts from Nestor's Primary Chronicle
  • Excerpts from Rostovsky's Chetya Minea
  • Excerpts from the Old and New Testaments
• Part 3. Arithmetic
  • Decimals and Fractions

New ABC & Russian Books for Reading^[4] (1875)

New ABC (Новая Азбука)

• Combination of phonetic and grammatical instruction with many simple untitled stories and fables
• Titled Stories
  • Burden (Fable)
  • Big Stove (Fable)
  • Nakhodka (Story)
  • The Girl and the Robbers (Fairy Tale)
  • Walnut Branch (Fairy Tale)
  • Birdie (Story)
  • Three Bears (Fairy Tale)
  • How Uncle Semyon Talked About What Happened to Him in the Forest (Story)
  • Cow (Story)
  • Philippok (Story)
• Prayers in Old East Slavic

Russian Book for Reading (Русская Книга Для Чтения) (Volumes 1-4)

A collection of stories, most of which appeared in the four original ABC volumes.

External links

• • Leo Tolstoy Archive, at RevoltLib.com
• Leo Tolstoy Archive, at Marxists.org
• Leo Tolstoy Archive, at TheAnarchistLibrary.org
  • • Online Books Page - free, public-domain books and articles by Tolstoy available online

Notes and References

1. Web site: Translator's Note from "The Gospel in Brief" published by T.Y. Crowell . 2001-03-10 . 2013-12-31.
2. Web site: On Life . . n.d. . Northwestern University Press . 5 November 2021 . This critical edition is the first accurate translation of this unsung classic of Russian thought into English, based on a study of manuscript pages of Tolstoy's drafts, and the first scholarly edition of this work in any language..
3. https://www.prlib.ru/item/776875
4. https://viewer.rusneb.ru/ru/000199_000009_002861487