The novel "Resurrection" is based on a real court case. A young aristocrat, once guilty of seducing a girl-peasant who was 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 to the reader a whole procession of faces belonging to different social spheres: from the Petersburg court chambers and luxurious mansions to poor villages and transfer prisons. In the novel, the author mercilessly criticizes and exposes
public institutions and foundations—state power, the courts, the church, the privileges of the nobility, land ownership, power of money, prisons, and prostitution. "Resurrection" became L. N. Tolstoy’s last major work.
"Resurrection" is a masterpiece of Leo Tolstoy’s late period.
The story of an aristocrat weary of secular life and entertainments, who experiences a sudden spiritual awakening during a tragic encounter with a cynical "lady of love"—whom he himself once pushed down this sorrowful path.
The story of a painful, мучительной revaluation of values and a long, difficult purification…