"Posthumous Notes of the Hermit Fëdor Kuzmich" ("Посмертные записки старца Федора Кузьмича") (AKA:"Posthumous Notes of the Elder Fëdor Kuzmich") is a short story byLeo Tolstoy written in December, 1905,[1] and then only published in 1912, over the ferocious objections of the tsarist censors and two years after Tolstoy's death.[2] It was never completed.[3]
The preface of the work indicates that it is the fictional notes of the real hermitFeodor Kuzmich.[4] Its translators wereLouise Maude and Nigel J. Cooper.[4] It is narrated from the point of view ofAlexander I, who suddenly has a religious awakening and discovers that living the lavish, decadent lifestyle of an emperor was wrong and that it was time to live among the common people.[2] According toSolomon Volkov, the theme here is a fictional death (the religious conversion) as a means of escaping one's former life.[2]
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