According to the biography of L.N. Tolstoy has done an extremely lot. And at the same time, we do not have a coherent biography of Leo Tolstoy. Old biographies were created by people who knew Lev Nikolaevich directly, but did not have the material that we have now. In addition to toto, the compilers of biographies were people who considered themselves Tolstoy's students, who considered ero life as a gradual ascent of the great writer in the matter of God-understanding, or liberals who replaced analysis with magnificent conversations and tried to smear the contradictions that so much defined in Tolstoy's life. In Tolstoy's life, to which the book is devoted, these contradictions were often expressed in petty clashes, in a strange misunderstanding of loved ones, in Tolstoy's despair, in his attempts to shield himself from the family, live on two floors, and limit his demands.