About the book: 2013 / This book for family reading contains the best works of Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy, which have been loved by preschoolers for more than a century , and among demanding teenagers. The main characters of the stories are children, “troubled”, “dexterous”, and therefore close to modern boys and girls. The book ends with the story “Prisoner of the Caucasus”, in which the harsh truth about the war is combined with kindness and humanity. The book teaches Love - for man and for everything that surrounds him: nature, animals, his native land. She is kind and bright, like all the works of a brilliant writer.