A Confession and Other Religious Writings

A Confession (pre-reform Russian: Исповѣдь; post-reform Russian: Исповедь, tr. Íspovedʹ), or My Confession, is a short work on the subject of melancholia, philosophy and religion by the Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy. It was written in 1879 to 1880, when Tolstoy was in his early fifties.