Reminiscence from Essay by Leo Tolstoy in Taras Shevchenko’s Story
Journal: Академічний журнал Слово і Час
Year: 2019

The paper attempts to prove that Shevchenko’s remark in the story “A Walk with Pleasure and Not Without Some Moral” about the fourth bastion during the defense of Sevastopol in the Crimean War derives from the essay by Leo Tolstoy “Sevastopol in December”, as it has been already supposed earlier. The author of the paper focuses on Shevchenko’s awareness of the works by Tolstoy investigating if the Russian magazines in which the works of the Russian prose writer were printed belonged to the readi