Inessa Medzhibovskaya is assistant professor of literature at the Eugene Lang College of the New School.

With this authoritative and revealing study of Tolstoy's quest for faith, based on his every word and placed in its appropriate Russian and Western philosophical context, Inessa Medzhibovskaya emerges as the leading Tolstoy scholar of her generation in Russia and the West.

• Chapter 1 Table of ContentsChapter 2 DedicationChapter 3 EpigraphChapter 4 Preface and AcknowledgementsChapter 5 IntroductionPart 6 IChapter 7 1 Challenges of Modernity: The Russian Vertigo in Personal Experience and Literature to 1847Chapter 8 2 Portrait of the Artist as a Young NonbelieverChapter 9 3 Superfluity and the Religion of Writing (1852-1863)Chapter 10 4 Belief System in War and PeaceChapter 11 5 The Unfinished Battle: The Case with the EpiloguesChapter 12 6 Tolstoy's Path toward Conversion: 1869-1875Part 13 IIChapter 14 7 The Course of Tolstoy's Conversion: From Philosophy to Christ (1875-1878)Chapter 15 8 Turning with ChristChapter 16 9 Religious Experience and Forms of AccountingChapter 17 10 Logos and Its Life in the WorldChapter 18 11The Death of Ivan Il'ichChapter 19 12On Life and ConclusionChapter 20 Appendix I: "On Prayer"Chapter 21 Appendix II: "Prayer of Granddaughter Sonechka"; "Prayer" (1909)Chapter 22 Bibliography

Inessa Medzhibovskaya is assistant professor of literature at the Eugene Lang College of the New School.

With this authoritative and revealing study of Tolstoy's quest for faith, based on his every word and placed in its appropriate Russian and Western philosophical context, Inessa Medzhibovskaya emerges as the leading Tolstoy scholar of her generation in Russia and the West.

• Chapter 1 Table of ContentsChapter 2 DedicationChapter 3 EpigraphChapter 4 Preface and AcknowledgementsChapter 5 IntroductionPart 6 IChapter 7 1 Challenges of Modernity: The Russian Vertigo in Personal Experience and Literature to 1847Chapter 8 2 Portrait of the Artist as a Young NonbelieverChapter 9 3 Superfluity and the Religion of Writing (1852-1863)Chapter 10 4 Belief System in War and PeaceChapter 11 5 The Unfinished Battle: The Case with the EpiloguesChapter 12 6 Tolstoy's Path toward Conversion: 1869-1875Part 13 IIChapter 14 7 The Course of Tolstoy's Conversion: From Philosophy to Christ (1875-1878)Chapter 15 8 Turning with ChristChapter 16 9 Religious Experience and Forms of AccountingChapter 17 10 Logos and Its Life in the WorldChapter 18 11The Death of Ivan Il'ichChapter 19 12On Life and ConclusionChapter 20 Appendix I: "On Prayer"Chapter 21 Appendix II: "Prayer of Granddaughter Sonechka"; "Prayer" (1909)Chapter 22 Bibliography

Inessa Medzhibovskaya is assistant professor of literature at the Eugene Lang College of the New School.

With this authoritative and revealing study of Tolstoy's quest for faith, based on his every word and placed in its appropriate Russian and Western philosophical context, Inessa Medzhibovskaya emerges as the leading Tolstoy scholar of her generation in Russia and the West.

• Chapter 1 Table of ContentsChapter 2 DedicationChapter 3 EpigraphChapter 4 Preface and AcknowledgementsChapter 5 IntroductionPart 6 IChapter 7 1 Challenges of Modernity: The Russian Vertigo in Personal Experience and Literature to 1847Chapter 8 2 Portrait of the Artist as a Young NonbelieverChapter 9 3 Superfluity and the Religion of Writing (1852-1863)Chapter 10 4 Belief System in War and PeaceChapter 11 5 The Unfinished Battle: The Case with the EpiloguesChapter 12 6 Tolstoy's Path toward Conversion: 1869-1875Part 13 IIChapter 14 7 The Course of Tolstoy's Conversion: From Philosophy to Christ (1875-1878)Chapter 15 8 Turning with ChristChapter 16 9 Religious Experience and Forms of AccountingChapter 17 10 Logos and Its Life in the WorldChapter 18 11The Death of Ivan Il'ichChapter 19 12On Life and ConclusionChapter 20 Appendix I: "On Prayer"Chapter 21 Appendix II: "Prayer of Granddaughter Sonechka"; "Prayer" (1909)Chapter 22 Bibliography