Journal of Undergraduate Research
Keywords
Leo Tolstoy, Mormonism, Russia, author
College
Humanities
Department
Germanic and Slavic Languages
Abstract
When Leo Tolstoy was a young boy, his older brother told him that the secret of life was written on a green stick, buried under an oak tree in the woods of Yasnaya Polyana, the Tolstoy family estate in the beautiful rolling hills of tsarist Russia. All his life, Tolstoy, the great Russian author and humanist, searched for the green stick and its contents. He sought answers to the perplexing puzzles of life that ultimate truth, contained upon the green stick, would provide. In his works and in his spiritual strivings, Tolstoy always remained committed to this ideal, that ultimate truth indeed existed and that for fulfillment in life, one must find and embrace it.
Recommended Citation
Browning, Gary L. and Richardson, Dr. Melvin K.
(2014)
"Tolstoy and Mormonism,"
Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2014:
Iss.
1, Article 651.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2014/iss1/651