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In Russia, the person who put Sevastopol on the literary map was Leo Tolstoy, a veteran of the siege. His fictionalized memoir The Sebastopol Sketches made him a national celebrity. Already with the first installment of the work published, Tsar Alexander II saw the propaganda value of the piece and ordered it translated into French for dissemination abroad. That made the young author very happy. Compared with Tolstoy__ later novels, The Sebastopol Sketches hasn__ aged well, possibly because this is not a heartfelt book. As the twenty-six-year-old Tolstoy__ Sevastopol diaries reveal, not heartache but ambition drove him at the time. Making a name as an author was just an alternative to two other grand plans__ounding a new religion and creating a mathematical model for winning in cards (his losses during the siege were massive even for a rich person).
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In Russia, the person who put Sevastopol on the literary map was Leo Tolstoy, a veteran of the siege. His fictionalized memoir The Sebastopol Sketches made him a national celebrity. Already with the first installment of the work published, Tsar Alexander II saw the propaganda value of the piece and ordered it translated into French for dissemination abroad. That made the young author very happy. Compared with Tolstoy__ later novels, The Sebastopol Sketches hasn__ aged well, possibly because this is not a heartfelt book. As the twenty-six-year-old Tolstoy__ Sevastopol diaries reveal, not heartache but ambition drove him at the time. Making a name as an author was just an alternative to two other grand plans__ounding a new religion and creating a mathematical model for winning in cards (his losses during the siege were massive even for a rich person).
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