The novel “Resurrection” is based on a real court case. A young aristocrat who once was guilty of seducing a peasant girl raised in a noble household must now, as a juror, decide her fate in court. The story of the novel’s main characters—Katyusha Maslova and Prince Nekhlyudov—their spiritual awakening and moral rebirth (“resurrection”) allowed L. N. Tolstoy to present before the reader a whole line of people belonging to different social spheres: from Petersburg court chambers and luxurious mansions to poor villages and transfer prisons. In the novel, the author mercilessly criticizes and exposes
the social institutions and foundations—state power, the courts, the church, the privileges of the nobility, land ownership, the power of money, prisons, prostitution. “Resurrection” became L. N. Tolstoy’s last major work.
“Resurrection” is a masterpiece of Leo Tolstoy’s late work.
The story of an aristocrat tired of secular life and entertainments, who experiences a sudden spiritual revelation during a tragic meeting with a cynical “priestess of love”—whom he himself once pushed onto this sad path.
The story of a painful, torturous reassessment of values and a long, difficult purification…