The Death of Ivan Ilyich

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

First Russian edition
Author	Leo Tolstoy
Original title	Смерть Ивана Ильича
Translator	Aylmer and Louise Maude Constance Garnett Rosemary Edmonds Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky Kirsten Lodge
Language	Russian
Genre	Philosophical fiction
Publication date	1886
Publication place	Russia
Published in English	1902
Dewey Decimal	891.733
LC Class	PG3366.S6
Original text	Смерть Ивана Ильича at Russian Wikisource
Translation	The Death of Ivan Ilyich at Wikisource

The Death of Ivan Ilyich (also Romanized Ilich, Ilych, Ilyitch; Russian: Смерть Ивана Ильича, romanized: Smert' Ivána Ilyicha), first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, considered one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s.

Considered to be one of the finest examples of a novella,^[1] The Death of Ivan Ilyich tells the story of a high-court judge in 19th-century Russia and his sufferings and death from a terminal illness.