Leo Tolstoy-a free man

About Leo Tolstoy written dozens of memoirs, including memories of his immediate family, the smallest, the facts of his biography reflected in hundreds of letters and diaries of his contemporaries. However, his life remains a mystery. As of "small small", which has not received systematic education, got a great writer and philosopher? Which meant his "spiritual revolution"? What prompted him to give up ownership and literary rights? For that he was excommunicated from the Church? What are the true causes of the several attempts of his departure from home? Why before his death he went to Optina Pustyn?
Writer and journalist, laureate of literary award "Big book" Pavel Basinsky sums up his years of exploration "true Tolstoy" in a book written based on extensive documentary material, of which the reader learns why he sold his father's house, why in old age a month and a half learned the Greek language since saved tens of thousands of starving, I would not love the "Tolstoyans", which is six times rewrote his will... in short, this is a complete biography of the literary genius in a small format.