This unique publication amounted conversations, interviews and reports by Russian and foreign journalists about his meetings with Leo Tolstoy, published in the Russian periodical press the end of the XX century. For the first time gathered together, they add to the chronicle of the life and work of the great Russian writer, reflecting the attitude of contemporaries to Tolstoy’s personality, his philosophy. Each publication, placed in the book conveys to readers living voice of Leo Tolstoy. The thematic range of his conversations unusually wide: philosophy, aesthetics and politics, the biggest phenomenon of the world and Russian culture, history and the present day, his own artistic creativity.