O LWA TOŁSTOJA OPOWIADANIACH DLA DZIECI
ON LEO TOLSTOY’S STORIES FOR CHILDREN

Summary/Abstract: In the article the author discusses Leo Tolstoy’s works for children of the seventies. Particular attention was paid to the creative investigations of the writer in the period of crisis which came after he wrote War and Peace. Evaluating critically his hitherto literary activity and Russian literature of the “Pushkin” period. Tolstoy turns to the Russian folklore, to the popular character of literary works. It is because here he sees the possibility of the revival of Russian literature. Stories for children become therefore the first attempts of this “new literature”. In these stories Tolstoy abandons the expanded psychologism, liking of details, excessive interference of the narrator, concentrated attention to the course of events, to the plot.

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