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Volume-I, Issue-III, March 2025
Volume-I, Issue-III, January, 2025
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তলস্তয়ের গল্প
প্রফেসর মানস মজুমদার (প্রাক্তন), বঙ্গ ভাষা ও সাহিত্য বিভাগ, কলিকাতা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়, কলকাতা, পশ্চিমবঙ্গ, ভারত
DOI: 10.69655/atmadeep.vol.1.issue.03W.33
Page No: 453-466
Stories of Tolstoy
 
Manas Mazumder, Former Professor, Calcutta University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
ABSTRACT
Leo Tolstoy was born on August 28, 1828, into an aristocratic landowning family in Russia. He was the owner of a vast estate and spent his early years in luxury and indulgence. However, as he grew older, he developed a growing disillusionment with wealth, status, and social prestige. Rejecting his aristocratic background, he aspired to become one with the common people of his country. He realized that true peace does not lie in material abundance but rather in love, sympathy, self-sacrifice, and service to others. Tolstoy had immense compassion for humanity. He felt deep pain for the suffering of the oppressed, impoverished, and downtrodden and stood beside them with a heart full of kindness. He was well acquainted with human nature—its morality, sins, greed, desires, and conflicts.
Tolstoy freely interacted with people from all classes of Russian society. The extravagance, vanity, and power-hungry tendencies of the aristocracy repelled him. In contrast, he found a profound sense of humanity among the common people, whose simplicity, mutual support, and faith in God reassured him. He believed that the world remains habitable because of the love, kindness, and wisdom of a few noble souls.
The 19th century was a golden age in Russian literature. During this period, great literary figures such as Pushkin (1799-1837), Dostoevsky (1821-1881), Chekhov (1860-1904), and Gorky (1868-1936) emerged. Among them, Tolstoy (1828-1910) stood at the pinnacle. Pushkin first gave voice to the pain and struggles of neglected and marginalized people in his stories. Gogol portrayed the plight of those crushed by a ruthless bureaucratic system. Chekhov, like a literary physician, sought to diagnose and cure the deep-seated social ills, envisioning social transformation. Gorky sang the songs of revolution, filling his tales with both turbulence and human love. But Tolstoy? He was incomparable. Recognized as one of the greatest novelists of all time, Tolstoy also enriched the realm of short stories, writing nearly fifty of them. His stories exhibit remarkable breadth, diversity, and depth.
Keyword :
  • Leo Tolstoy
  • Russian Literature
  • Social Inequality
  • Russian Writers Pushkin
  • Dostoevsky
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