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Father Sergius Tolstoy, Lev Nikolayevich (Translator: Louise and Aylmer Maude) Published: 1873 Type(s): Short Fiction, Religion Source: 1 About Tolstoy: Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian novelist, writer, essayist, philosopher, Chris- tian anarchist, pacifist, educational reformer, moral thinker, and an influ- ential member of the Tolstoy family. As a fiction writer Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for his masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina; in their scope, breadth and realistic depiction of Russian life, the two books stand at the peak of realistic fiction. As a moral philosopher he was notable for his ideas on nonviolent resistance through his work The Kingdom of God is Within You, which in turn influenced such twentieth-century figures as Mohan- das K. Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. Source: Wikipedia 2 Chapter 1 In Petersburg in the eighteen-forties a surprising event occurred. An of- ficer of the Cuirassier Life Guards, a handsome prince who everyone predicted would become aide-de-camp to the Emperor Nicholas I and have a brilliant career, left the service, broke off his engagement to a beautiful maid of honour, a favourite of the Empresss, gave his small es- tate to his sister, and retired to a monastery to become a monk. This event appeared extraordinary and inexplicable to those who did not know his inner motives, but for Prince Stepan Kasatsky himself it all occurred so naturally that he could not imagine how he could have acted otherwise. His father, a retired colonel of the Guards, had died when Stepan was twelve, and sorry as h