Sevastopol Stories

This collection includes military works written by Tolstoy over different years – an astonishingly powerful, immortal cycle of Sevastopol Stories, celebrating the courage of the Russian people during the Crimean War, dramatic and captivating tales from the conquest of the Caucasus Hadji Murat and The Cossack Captive, and socio-psychological stories The Two Hussars and After the Ball, in which the author creates convincing, profound, and often quite unexpected images of Russian officers.