The theme of the Russian revolution in the early works of A.N. Tolstoy

In this article, the author examines the stories of A.N. Tolstoy's "Arkhip" and "Matchmaking" are early works where the writer creates a universal world, which he knew and loved so well, which nourished it with his joys and sorrows. The author comes to the conclusion that no matter how Marxist Countess Alexandra Leontievna Tolstaya, the mother of Alexei Tolstoy, was, Russia during the civil war horrified both Bunin and Tolstoy. The stories "Arkhip" and "Matchmaking" seem to be deliberately intertwined into one bare nerve that goes much deeper than the modern author of the class struggle, new literary trends - he goes into the depths of the people's body, through Pugachevism and rashness, hundreds of years ago, almost into primitive savagery, opening up dark and destructive forces for any civilization, for the very soul of man.