About the book: year / In his book "Tolstoy and Dostoevsky" Merezhkovsky shows that these two writers are "opposite twins" of each other, and one cannot be understood without the other, to one cannot come except through the other. The paganism of L. Tolstoy is the direct and only path to the Christianity of Dostoevsky, who was convinced that “Orthodoxy is everything for the people,” and that the fate of Russia depends on the fate of the church. Each of them expresses their beliefs in their works.