Father Sergius by Leo Tolstoy Fiction Literary

<p><strong>In Petersburg in the eighteen-forties a surprising event occurred.</strong> An officer of the Cuirassier Life Guards a handsome prince who everyone predicted would become aide-de-camp to the Emperor Nicholas I and have a brilliant career left the service broke off his engagement to a beautiful maid of honor a favorite of the Empress's gave his small estate to his sister and retired to a monastery to become a monk. This event appeared extraordinary and inexplicable to those who did not know his inner motives but for Prince Stepan Kasatsky himself it all occurred so naturally . . .</p>