Excerpt from Father Sergius, and Other Stories and Plays
In almost every kind of literary work he touched, Tolstoy succeeded at once in reaching the foremost rank.
When he sent his first story, "Childhood," anonymously to the poet Nekrasov, Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Father Sergius, and Other Stories and Plays (Classic Reprint) (Leo Tolstoy)