Sevastopol Sketches
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In Sevastopol (or Sebastopol) Sketches Tolstoy examines the senselessness and vanity of war, the many aspects of the psychology of war, heroism, and the misleading presence of humanism in truces. The name originates from Sevastopol, a city in Crimea. Many of the episodes in Tolstoy's War and Peace are linked to the events described in these sketches.
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[1] The landing-place here called the Grafskaya, is evidently the one called the Ekateríninskaya on Todleben’s plans of Sevastopol. The purpose of the map given in this volume being to elucidate the story, the Grafskaya is shown where Tolstoy puts it, though no authority can be superior to Todleben’s on such a matter.
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