Lesesaal

After the Ball

Leo Tolstoy

Ivan Vasilyevich tells how his life changed in a single morning: after dancing all night with the beautiful Varenka, he sees her father, a charming colonel, supervise the running of the gauntlet by a Tatar soldier who tried to desert. His love dies and he renounces a military career. Written in 1903 and published in 1911.