Boyhood

‘Boyhood’ is the second novella in Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy, following ‘Childhood’ and followed by ‘Youth’. The novella was first published in the Russian literary journal Sov-remennik in 1854. Published when Tolstoy was just twenty-three years old, the book was an immediate success, earning notice from other Russian novelists including Ivan Turgenev, who heralded the young Tolstoy as a major up-and-coming figure in Russian literature.