The basis of the novel "Resurrection" was a real court case - a young aristocrat, once guilty of seducing a peasant girl brought up in a manor house, must now decide her fate in court as a jury. The story of the main characters of the novel - Katyusha Maslova and Prince Nekhlyudov, their spiritual awakening and moral revival - "resurrection" - allowed L.N. Tolstoy to conduct a string of people belonging to various social spheres in front of the reader: from St. Petersburg court chambers and luxurious mansions to impoverished villages and transit prisons. In the novel, the author mercilessly criticizes and denounces public institutions and foundations - state power, court, church, privileges of the nobility, land property, the power of money, prisons, prostitution. The novel "Resurrection" was the last major work of L.N. Tolstoy.