![]() Koni concluded his story by relating that the couple did actually marry, but shortly after her sentence expired, the girl died from typhus. His conscience awakened to the injustice of his behaviour, he decided to marry the girl, who was sentenced to four months in prison. On the jury that tried the case fate placed her seducer. Detected in stealing money from one of her drunken "guests" in a brothel, the girl was arrested. Abandoned by her seducer, the girl, after hopeless attempts to earn an honest livelihood, became a prostitute. Once her benefactress observed the girl's pregnant condition, she drove her away. As a youth this man had seduced a pretty orphan girl of sixteen who had been taken into the home of a relative of the young man when her parents died. He told Tolstoy the story of a man who had come to him for legal aid. The theme for the new novel had been supplied by Tolstoy's friend Anatoly Koni. The publication of Resurrection led to Tolstoy's excommunication by the Holy Synod from the Russian Orthodox Church in 1901. The novel also explores the economic philosophy of Georgism, of which Tolstoy had become a very strong advocate towards the end of his life, and explains the theory in detail. Tolstoy intended the novel as a panoramic view of Russia at the end of the 19th century from the highest to the lowest levels of society and an exposition of the injustice of man-made laws and the hypocrisy of the institutionalized church. The book is the last of his major long fiction works published in his lifetime. ![]() Voskreséniye, also translated as The Awakening), first published in 1899, was the last novel written by Leo Tolstoy. ![]()
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