What was the reason for the denial of the church by L.N. Tolstoy? First of all, Tolstoy is a victim of the rationalist era, as its typical representative. But in order to understand Tolstoy, it is necessary to disassemble his mental "arrangement," i.e. his mental properties, approach to life and truth, his emotional sphere. Tolstoy claimed his inherent understanding of higher spiritual truths. However, he approached these issues exclusively rationalistically, denying all spirituality, calling any mystical experience "nonsense."