The intuitive Russia can hardly be separated from anyone who has read Tolstoy. In these works, we witness with both horror and joy a soul overflowing, beside which our own seems old and calcified. We see the most intimate realm of poetry, the daily inner lives of all people, captured with a warmth and fervor, and shaped with an artistry that could only arise from a wellspring of love—a love that seems to burn nowhere as brightly, as purely, as divinely as in the hearts of the great Russian poets, as Hermann Hesse noted. This volume gathers the most beautiful stories of Tolstoy: The Snowstorm, The Raid, Master and Man, The Canvas Knife, How Much Land Does a Man Need?, For What?.