Tolstoy and the religious culture of his time : a biography of a long conversion, 1845-1887 / Inessa Medzhibovskaya.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-384) and index.

Challenges of modernity: the Russian vertigo in personal experience and literature to 1847 -- Portrait of the artist as a young nonbeliever -- Superfluity and the religion of writing (1851-1863) -- Belief system in War and peace (1863-1869) -- The unfinished battle: the case with the epilogues -- Tolstoy's path toward conversion: 1869-1875 -- The course of Tolstoy's conversion: from philosophy to Christ (1875-1878) -- Turning with Christ (1878-1881) -- Religious experience and forms of accounting -- Logos and its life in the world (1880-1886) -- The death of Ivan Il'ich -- On life and conclusion -- Appendix I: Tolstoy "On prayer" (1852) -- Appendix II: "Prayer for Granddaughter Sonechka" and "Prayer" (1909).

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The first book-length study on the subject in any language, Tolstoy and the Religious Culture of His Time treats Tolstoy's experience as a massive philosophical and religious project rather than a crisis-laden tragedy. Inessa Medzhibovskaya explainsthe evolution of Tolstoy's religious outlook based on his ongoing dialogue with the tradition of conversion in Europe and Russia, as well as on the demands of his own heart, mind, and spirit. The author contextualizes Tolstoy's conversion, comparing hispattern of religious conversion with that of other notable religious converts-Saint Paul, Saint Au.

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