Three Deaths

For the lyric drama by Apollon Maykov, see Three Deaths (drama).
Image of Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy in 1860

"Three Deaths: A Tale" (Russian: Три смерти, Tri smerti) is a short story by Leo Tolstoy first published in 1859.[1] It narrates the deaths of three subjects: a noblewoman, a coachman and a tree.[2]

  1. ^ Katz, Michael R., ed. (1991). Tolstoy's Short Fiction. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. p. 44.
  2. ^ Bakhtin, Mikhail (1991). Katz, Michael R. (ed.). Tolstoy's Short Fiction. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. p. 395.