Sevastopol Tales

A new translation of Tolstoy's shockingly immersive, formally inventive and masterfully ironic account of life under siege during the Crimean War

About the author

Nicolas Pasternak Slater, a nephew of Boris Pasternak, is a retired haematologist. Published translations include Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, Tolstoy's short stories, and, for Pushkin Press, stories by Ivan Turgenev and Anton Chekhov.

Product details

• Authors: Leo Tolstoy, Tolstoy Leo
• Assisted by: Nicolas Slater Pasternak (Translation)
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 12.02.2026
• EAN: 9781805332602
• ISBN: 978-1-80533-260-2
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Fiction in translation, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, War & combat fiction, War, combat and military adventure fiction, Crimean War, FICTION / World Literature / Russia / 19th Century, Classic fiction: general and literary, Crimea / Crimean Peninsula