Nikolay Saryntsov, who recognizes the absurdity of aristocratic life, wishes to turn over his state to the peasents. His wife, however, is unwilling to give up her claim to his property or deny it to her seven children. The only converts to Nikolay's views are Boris, who is the fiancé of his daughter Lyuba, and a young Orthodox priest named Vasily. In the end Boris dies in an army camp, Vasily recants and returns to the church, and Lyuba becomes engaged to an idle aristocrat. Princess Cheremshanova, Boris's mother, shoots Nikolay, whom she holds responsabile for her son's death. As Nikolay dies from the wound, he learns os the Dukhobors, a dissident sect, who agree with his vision of life.
"An unusual German-Russian cooperation - the German director will be staging a production in Russia of Leo Tolstoy's unfinished five-act drama,«And a Light Shines in Darkness». ARTS.21 reports on Volker Schlöndorff's production at the Yasnaya Poliyana estate near Moscow and in Neuhardenberg in eastern Germany." (YOUTUBE deutschewelleenglish 14 settembre 2009)
Here some Tolstoy, Leo's books in english, "Anna Karenina" and "War and Peace" you can read in Google Books:
- The Wisdom of Humankind, Michigan, CoNexus Press, 1999
- A Calendar of Wisdom. Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, N.Y., Scribner, 1997
- World's Sacred Texts by Leo Tolstoy
- The Law of Love and The Law of Violence, Santa Barbara Press, 1975
- The Kingdom of God is Within You (Russia 1893)
- The Kingdom of God and Peace Essays by Lev Tolstoy (London: Oxford University Press, 1951)
- Walk in the Light and Twenty-Three Tales. 1893, 1998.
- Writings on Civil Disobedience and Non-Violence 1988
- Anna Kerenina
- A Prisoner in the Caucasus, 1872
- War and Peace, 1865-1869.
