About the Author
This is the country that Leo Tolstoy originates from.
What is Russia?
This is our main protagonist who haunts the narrative.
Who is Ivan Ilyich?
This is where the story starts.
What is the court building?
This is how Ivan's life is described.
What is "most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible"?
This Tolstoy's most famous novel.
What is War and Peace?
This is the full name of Ivan's wife.
What is Praskovya Fyodorovna Golovin?
This is the date that Ivan died.
What is 4th of February 1882?
This is the amount of time that passed before Ivan was promoted to Assistant Public Prosecuter.
What is three years?
This is the famous war that Tolstoy served in as an artillery officer.
What is the Crimean War?
This is the name of Ivan's friend from work.
What is Pyotr Ivanovich?
This is the event that Ivan's "friends" feel obligated to attend.
What is his funeral?
This is the age that Ivan enters the School of Law.
What is around 13?
This is the movement that he was part of.
What is Russian realism?
What are Liza and Vasya?
This is what chapter 2 focuses on.
What is the backstory of Ivan?
This is what killed Ivan.
What is a terminal illness?
This is the term that was used to describe indentured servitutude in Russia that Tolstoy was against.
What is "serfdom"?
This is the name of Ivan's father.
What is Ilya Yefimovich Golovin?
This is the one of the many things that causes Ivan to fall into depression.
What is abuse from his wife?
This is the time period in Russian history that the story takes place in.
What is the Imperial period of Tsars Alexander?