In the canon
The Sebastopol Sketches
- Form
- Form Short Story Collection
- Year
- Year 1855
- Originally in
- Originally in Russian
- Pages
- Pages 190
You are entering Sevastopol. Tolstoy fixes that pronoun on you in the first sketch and will not let go: you cross the harbour, you follow a sound into the hospital, you stand in the surgeon's room as a leg is carried to the corner, and only then does he walk you up to the Fourth Bastion, where he served the guns.
whom I have tried to set forth in all his beauty, and who has always been, is, and always will be most beautiful, is—the truth.
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