title: Defense of Sevastopol in the literary interpretation of L. N. Tolstoy and his contemporaries
abstract: In the given article the statement about the special author’s vision of the events of the Crimean War presented in “The Sevastopol Sketches” by L.N. Tolstoy is concept-forming. This thesis exists as the axiom in studies of L. N. Tolstoy’s “The Sevastopol Sketches” from the moment of their writing to the present day. In order to clarify the writer’s position, to concretize its differences with the generally accepted point of view, “The Sevastopol Sketches” are compared with the official military 
journal: Vestnik of North-Eastern Federal University History Political Science Law