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Posthumous work

Father Sergius

Отец Сергий

Lev Tolstói en Yásnaia Poliana (1908)
byLeo Tolstoy

Posthumous story of Prince Stepan Kasatsky, a brilliant officer who becomes a monk on learning that his fiancée was the tsar's mistress. Revered as a holy hermit, he cuts off a finger to resist a temptress but falls years later with a sick girl. He flees, lives as an anonymous pilgrim and finds holiness in a poor relative who lives for others without thinking of herself. Written 1890–1898, published 1911.

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  • Толстой, Л. Н. Собрание сочинений в 22 томах. Moscú: Judózhestvennaia literatura, 1978–1985 (índices de los tomos 1–22 en la Biblioteca Virtual Rusa, RVB; el t. 10, de 1982, recoge los relatos de la Nueva Azbuka y de los cuatro Libros rusos de lectura).

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