Leo Tolstoy Archive
Marxist Internet Archive English Project For:
Identifying, Locating, Translating, and Transcribing All Texts Written by Leo Tolstoy
The following works are missing! We are unable to locate freely-reproducible, English-translations of them. Do you have a source for them? Please contact the MIA and let us know!
Note: Because these works are not translated, the titles you see below are (usually) generated by a non-Russian speaker using Google Translate.
Known Missing Texts
1853: Festive Night (Святочная ночь)
1853: The Raid (Набег)
This text HAS been located at Archive.org, but it requires extensive amounts of editing before it'll be publishable.
1854: How Russian Soldiers Die (Как умирают русские солдаты)
1855-6: Sevastopol Stories (~Russian Unknown~)
1856: Demoted (Разжалованный)
1856: An Encounter (~Russian Unknown~)
1860: Excerpts from stories from village life (Отрывки рассказов из деревенской жизни)
1862: On Popular Education
This text HAS been located at Archive.org, but it requires extensive amounts of editing before it'll be publishable.
1872: Education and Instruction
1874: Progress and the Definition of Education
1875: Instruction
1880: Bounce (Прыжок)
1880: The Story of an Aeronaut (Рассказ Аэронавта)
1885: Christ's Christianity
1885: Letter to L. D. Urusov (translated by Edward Bernstein)
1887: On Life (О жизни)
This text HAS been located at Archive.org, but it requires extensive amounts of editing before it'll be publishable.
1888: The Physiology of War
This text HAS been located at Archive.org, but it requires extensive amounts of editing before it'll be publishable.
1891: Memoirs of a Mother (Мать)
1895: Correspondence with the Doukhobor community in Canada
1899: Ending Of Legend Forty Years
This text HAS been located at Archive.org, but it requires extensive amounts of editing before it'll be publishable.
1900: Two Different Versions Of The Story Of The Lubok Hive (Две различные версии истории улья с лубочной крышкой)
1900: Letter to T. A. Ushakoff
1900: Letter to Arvid Yarnefelt
1900: Letter to Alexis C. Blakhopuloff
1901: Reply to the Holy Synod
1901: Letter to the Persian ambassador to Russia
1901: The Only Means
This text HAS been located at Archive.org, but it requires extensive amounts of editing before it'll be publishable.
1905: The One Thing Needful (Единое на потребу)
This text HAS been located at Books.Google.ca, but it requires extensive amounts of editing before it'll be publishable.
1905: Diary of Alexander I (~Russian Unknown~)
1906: Divine and Human (Божеское и человеческое)
There is a 2000 version of this available for sale, translated by Peter Sekirin. All profits to the author and publisher go to Amnesty International. It is still under this copyright arrangement, so, this version of the text does not appear here. We are still looking for earlier, English translations with an expired copyright.
1906: Korney Vasiliev (Корней Васильев)
1906: Berries (Ягоды)
1906: Letter to M. Sabatier
1906: What For? (За что?)
1907: Letter to Premanand Bharati
1908: Wolf (Волк)
1908: The Strength of Childhood (Сила детства)
1908: The Annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria (О присоединении Боснии и Герцеговины к Австрии)
1908: Take Me! I Will Not Cease Writing: A Challenge
1908: Tolstoy's Protest
1908: The Teaching of Jesus: A Simple Rendering (Учение Христа, изложенное для детей)
1909: It is Time to Understand (Пора понять)
1909: Letter to a Peasant on Science
1909: Letter to a Student on Jurisprudence
1909: A Letter to a Student About Law
1909: What to Teach Children
1910: Letter to V.A. Posse on the Importance of Studying Ancient Religions
1910: Grateful Soil (Благодарная почва)
1910: Unintentionally (Нечаянно)
1910: An Efficient Remedy
1911: An Idyll (Идиллия)
1911: Who is Right? (Кто прав?)
1911: Father Vasily (Отец Василий)
~~: A Project for a General Plan for Elementary Schools
~~: The Lion and the Puppy: And Other Stories for Children
~~: The Only Commandment
~~: How Shall We Escape?
~~: Love letters
~~: Letter to Isabella Grinevskaya
~~: Letter to the Czar on the Kishineff massacre of Jews
~~: Letter to John Coleman Kenworthy
This text HAS been located at Archive.org, but it requires extensive amounts of editing before it'll be publishable.
~~: The Root of the Evil
~~: The Meaning of Life
This text HAS been located at Archive.org, but it requires extensive amounts of editing before it'll be publishable.
~~: Reason, Faith and Prayer
~~: An Appeal to the Clergy