Novels and novellas

• Childhood
  Childhood (novel)
  Childhood is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released under the initials L. N. in the November 1852 issue of the popular Russian literary journal The Contemporary....
  
   (Детство [Detstvo], 1852)
• Boyhood
  Boyhood (novel)
  Boyhood is the second novel in Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy, following Childhood and followed by Youth. The novel was first published in the Russian literary journal Sovremennik in 1854....
  
   (Отрочество [Otrochestvo], 1854)
• Youth
  Youth (Tolstoy novel)
  Youth is the third novel in Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy, following Childhood and Boyhood. It was first published in the popular Russian literary magazine Sovremennik....
  
   (Юность [Yunost'], 1856)
• Family Happiness
  Family Happiness
  Family Happiness is an 1859 novella written by Leo Tolstoy, first published in The Russian Messenger. The story concerns the love and marriage of a young girl, Mashechka, and the much older Sergey Mikhaylych, an old family friend. After a somewhat awkward courtship, the two are married and move to...
  
   (Семейное счастье [Semeynoe schast`e], 1859)
• The Cossacks
  The Cossacks (novel)
  The Cossacks is a short novel by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1863 in the popular literary magazine The Russian Messenger. The Nobel prize-winning Russian writer Ivan Bunin gave the work great praise, calling it one of the finest in the Russian language....
  
   (Казаки [Kazaki], 1863)
• War and Peace
  War and Peace
  War and Peace is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1869. The work is epic in scale and is regarded as one of the most important works of world literature...
  
   (Война и мир [Voyna i mir], 1869)
• Anna Karenina
  Anna Karenina
  Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger...
  
   (Анна Каренина [Anna Karenina], 1877)
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich
  The Death of Ivan Ilyich
  The Death of Ivan Ilyich , first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, and is considered to be one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s.-Characters:...
  
    (Смерть Ивана Ильича [Smert' Ivana Il'icha], 1886)
• The Kreutzer Sonata
  The Kreutzer Sonata
  The Kreutzer Sonata is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1889 and promptly censored by the Russian authorities. The work is an argument for the ideal of sexual abstinence and an in-depth first-person description of jealous rage...
  
   (Крейцерова соната [Kreitserova Sonata], 1889)
• Resurrection
  Resurrection (novel)
  Resurrection , first published in 1899, was the last novel written by Leo Tolstoy. The book is the last of his major long fiction works published in his lifetime . Tolstoy intended the novel as an exposition of injustice of man-made laws and the hypocrisy of institutionalized church...
  
   (Воскресение [Voskresenie], 1899)
• The Forged Coupon
  The Forged Coupon
  The Forged Coupon is a novella in two parts by Leo Tolstoy. Though he first conceived of the story in the late 1890s, he did not begin writing it until 1902. After struggling for several years, he finally completed the story in 1904; however, it was not published until some of Tolstoy's shorter...
  
   (Фальшивый купон [Fal'shivyi kupon], 1911)
• Hadji Murat
  Hadji Murat (novel)
  Hadji Murat is a short novel written by Leo Tolstoy from 1896 to 1904 and published posthumously in 1912 . It is Tolstoy’s final work...
  
   (Хаджи-Мурат [Khadzhi-Murat], 1912)

Short stories

• "The Raid
  The Raid (story)
  The Raid was a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy first published in 1853. The story, set in the Caucasus, takes the form of a conversation between the narrator and a military captain about the nature of bravery. The story was based on Tolstoy's own experiences as an artillery cadet...
  
  " ("Набег" ["Nabeg"], 1852)
• "The Wood-Felling" ("Рубка леса" ["Rubka lesa"], 1855)
• "Sevastopol Sketches" ("Севастопольские рассказы" ["Sevastopolskie rasskazy"], 1855–1856)
  • "Sevastopol in December 1854" (1855)
  • "Sevastopol in May 1855" (1855)
  • "Sevastopol in August 1855" (1856)
• "A Billiard-Marker's Notes" ("Записки маркера" ["Zapiski markera"], 1855)
• "The Snowstorm
  The Snowstorm
  The Snowstorm , is a short story by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. It was first published, 1856, in the literary and political magazine Sovremennik.-Background:...
  
  " ("Метель" ["Metel"], 1856)
• "Two Hussars" ("Два гусара" ["Dva gusara"], 1856)
• "A Landlord's Morning" (1856)
• "Meeting a Moscow Acquaintance in the Detachment" (1856)
• "Lucerne" ("Люцерн" ["Lyutsern"], 1857)
• "Albert
  Albert (short story)
  Albert is a short story by Leo Tolstoy. It was originally published in 1858.The lead character, Albert, is a homeless, yet brilliant, violinist. The kind Delesov wanted to save the young violinist, but after taking him home, discovers that Albert's drinking and temper threaten to destroy his...
  
  " ("Альберт" ["Al'bert"], 1858)
• "Three Deaths
  Three Deaths
  Three Deaths: A Tale is a short story by Leo Tolstoy first published in 1859. It narrates the deaths of three subjects: a noblewoman, a coachman and a tree....
  
  " ("Три смерти" ["Tri smerti"], 1859)
• "The Porcelain Doll" (1863)
• "Polikúshka" ("Поликушка" ["Polikushka"], 1863)
• "God Sees the Truth, But Waits
  God Sees the Truth, But Waits
  "God Sees the Truth, But Waits" is a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy first published in 1872. The story, about a man sent to prison for a murder he didn't commit, takes the form of a parable of forgiveness. English translations were also published under titles "The Confessed Crime" and...
  
  " ("Бог правду видит, да не скоро скажет" ["Bog pravdu vidit, da ne skoro skazhet"], 1872)
• "The Prisoner in the Caucasus" ("Кавказский пленник" ["Kavkazskii plennik"], 1872)
• "The Bear-Hunt" (1872)
• "What Men Live By
  What Men Live By
  What Men Live By is an opera in one act by Bohuslav Martinů to an English libretto by the composer, based on the story by Leo Tolstoy. It was composed in 1951-1952 when the composer was living in the U.S.A....
  
  " ("Чем люди живы" ["Chem lyudi zhivy"], 1881)
• "Memoirs of a Madman" (1884)
• "Quench the Spark
  Quench the Spark
  "Quench the Spark" is a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy first published in 1885. The story takes the form of a parable concerning the virtues of reconciliation.-Synopsis:...
  
  " ("Упустишь огонь, не потушишь" ["Upustish ogon', ne potushish"], 1885)
• "Two Old Men" (1885)
• "Where Love Is, God Is
  Where Love is, God is
  "Where Love Is, God Is" is a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy. The title references the Catholic hymn Ubi Caritas. One English translation of this short story as translated by Nathan Haskell Dole uses the alternate title translation of "Where Love Is, There God Is Also"...
  
  " ("Где любовь, там и бог" ["Gde lyubov'], 1885)
• "Ivan the Fool
  Ivan the Fool (story)
  Ivan the Fool is an 1886 short story by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1886.Its plot is about the struggles of three brothers and a sister with the Old Devil...
  
  " ("Сказка об Иване—дураке" ["Skazka ob Ivane—durake"], 1885)
• "Evil Allures, But Good Endures" (1885)

• "Wisdom of Children
  Wisdom of Children
  Wisdom of Children is a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy first published in 1885. It takes the form of a parable about forgiveness.-Synopsis:...
  
  " (1885)
• "Ilyás" (1885)
• "The Three Hermits" (1886)
• "Promoting a Devil
  Promoting a Devil
  Promoting a Devil is a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy first published in 1886. It is a cautionary tale against the dangers of alcohol.-Synopsis:...
  
  " (1886)
• "How Much Land Does a Man Need?
  How Much Land Does a Man Need?
  How Much Land Does a Man Require? is an 1886 short story by Leo Tolstoy about a man who, in his lust for land, forfeits everything.-Synopsis:...
  
  " ("Много ли человеку земли нужно" ["Mnogo li cheloveku zemli nuzhno"], 1886)
• "The Grain
  The Grain
  The Grain, sometimes also translated as A Grain as Big as a Hen's Egg, is a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy written in 1886. It takes the form of a parable about being content with one's lot in life.-Synopsis:...
  
  " (1886)
• "The Godson" (1886)
• "Repentance
  Repentance (story)
  Repentance is a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy first published in 1886. The story details the difficulties of a repentant sinner's attempts to enter Heaven.-Synopsis:...
  
  " (1886)
• "Croesus and Fate
  Croesus and Fate
  Croesus and Fate is a short story by Leo Tolstoy that is a retelling of a Greek legend, classically told by Herodotus, about the king Croesus. It was first published in 1886 by Tolstoy's publishing company The Intermediary...
  
  " (1886)
• "Kholstomer
  Kholstomer
  "Kholstomer", also translated as "Strider", is one of the most striking stories in Russian literature. It was started by Leo Tolstoy in 1863 and left unfinished until 1886, when it was reworked and published as "Kholstomer: The Story of a Horse". Georgi Tovstonogov staged it in his theatre in 1975....
  
  " ("Холстомер" ["Kholstomer"], 1888)
• "The Empty Drum" (1891)
• "Françoise" (1892)
• "A Talk Among Leisured People" (1893)
• "Walk in the Light While There is Light" (1893)
• "The Coffee-House of Surrat" (1893)
• "Master and Man
  Master and Man
  Master and Man is a short story by Leo Tolstoy .-Plot summary:In this short story, a land owner named Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov takes along one of his peasants, Nikita, for a short journey to the house of the owner of a forest. He is impatient and wishes to get to the town more quickly 'for...
  
  " ("Хозяин и работник" ["Khozyain and rabotnik"], 1895)
• "Too Dear!
  Too Dear!
  "Too Dear!" is a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy first published in 1897. It is a humorous account of the troubles of dealing with a criminal in the kingdom of Monaco.-Synopsis:All is well in the kingdom of Monaco until a man commits a murder...
  
  " ("Дорого стоит" ["Dorogo stoit"], 1897)
• "Father Sergius
  Father Sergius
  Father Sergius is a short story written by Leo Tolstoy in 1890 and first published in 1898.-Plot:The story begins with the childhood and exceptional and accomplished youth of Prince Stepan Kasatsky. The young man is destined for great things. He discovers on the eve of his wedding that his fiancée...
  
  " ("Отец Сергий" ["Otetz Sergij"], 1898)
• "Esarhaddon, King of Assyria" (1903)
• "Work, Death, and Sickness
  Work, Death, and Sickness
  Work, Death, and Sickness, sometimes also translated as The Right Way, is a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy written in 1903. The story takes the form of a parable about the creation of work, death, and sickness.-Synopsis:...
  
  " (1903)
• "Three Questions
  The Three Questions
  The Three Questions is a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy first published in 1885 as part of the collection What Men Live By, and other tales...
  
  " ("Три вопроса" ["Tri voprosa"], 1903)
• "After the Ball" (1903)
• "Feodor Kuzmich" (1905)
• "Alyosha the Pot
  Alyosha the Pot
  Alyosha the Pot is a short story by Leo Tolstoy . D. S. Mirsky considered it "a masterpiece of rare perfection."-Synopsis:Alyosha, a young child who lives in a village and obtained the nickname "the Pot" from an incident where he broke a pot in his youth, is sent to live with a merchant's family...
  
  " ("Алеша Горшок" ["Alyosha Gorshok"], 1905)
• "What For?" (1906)
• "The Devil
  The Devil (novel)
  "The Devil" is a short story by Leo Tolstoy. It was written in 1889, given an alternative ending in 1909, but published only posthumously in 1911...
  
  " ("Дьявол" ["Dyavol"], 1911)

Plays

• The Power of Darkness
  The Power of Darkness
  The Power of Darkness is a five-act drama by Leo Tolstoy. Written in 1886, the play was banned in Russia until 1902.The central character is a peasant, Nikita, who seduces and abandons a young girl Marinka; then the lovely Anisija murders her own husband to marry Nikita. He impregnates his new...
  
   (Власть тьмы [Vlast' t'my], 1886)
• The First Distiller (1886)
• The Fruits of Enlightenment
  The Fruits of Enlightenment
  The Fruits of Enlightenment, aka Fruits of Culture is a play by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. It satirizes the persistence of unenlightened attitudes towards the peasants amongst the Russian landed aristocracy...
  
   (Плоды просвещения [Plody prosvesheniya], 1891)
• The Living Corpse
  The Living Corpse
  The Living Corpse is a Russian play by Leo Tolstoy. Although written around 1900, it was only published shortly after his death—Tolstoy had never considered the work finished...
  
   (Живой труп [Zhivoi trup], 1900)
• The Cause of it All (1910)
• The Light Shines in Darkness

Philosophical works

• A Confession
  A Confession
  A Confession is a short work on questions of religion by Leo Tolstoy. It was first distributed in Russia in 1882.Consisting of autobiographical notes on the development of the author's belief, A Confession shows the process of searching for answers to the profound questions: "What will come of my...
  
   (1882)
• What I Believe (also called My Religion) (1884)
• What Is to Be Done? (also translated as What Then Must We Do?) (1886)
• On Life (1887)
• The Kingdom of God is Within You
  The Kingdom of God Is Within You
  The Kingdom of God Is Within You is the non-fiction magnum opus of Leo Tolstoy and was first published in Germany in 1894, after being banned in his home country of Russia...
  
   (1894)
• The Gospel in Brief (1896)
• What Is Art?
  What Is Art?
  "What Is Art?" is an essay by Leo Tolstoy in which he argues against numerous aesthetic theories which define art in terms of the good, truth, and especially beauty...
  
   (1897)
• Letter to the Liberals (1898)
• What Is Religion? (1902)
• A Calendar of Wisdom
  A Calendar of Wisdom
  A Calendar of Wisdom ,or Path of life or A Cycle of Readings orWise Thoughts for Every Dayis a collection of insights and wisdom compiled by Leo Tolstoy between 1903 and 1910 that was published in three different editions. An English translation by Archibald J. Wolfe of the first Russian edition,...
  
  (Путь Жизни [Put' Zhizni]; 1910)
• The Law of Love and the Law of Violence; published in 1940 complete text

Pedagogical works

• Articles from Tolstoy's journal on education, "Yasnaya Polyana" (1861-1862)