Before you is a collection of selected articles by the great Russian writer, whose powerful voice sounded and still sounds to the whole world. Leo Tolstoy always responded to the most acute, painful problems of Russia, he was immensely worried about the fate of the country's citizens. The collection includes three articles by the writer, revealing his gift as a thinker and publicist. "Rethink!" - anti-war article. It was written after the start of the Russo-Japanese War, and was first published in English due to censorship. In the manifesto "I can not be silent," the writer strongly opposes the death penalty, and in the article "The Law of Violence and the Law of Love" condemns any violence of some people over others. Talking about war and peace, love and death, faith, duty and free will today, we cannot do without references to these vivid, polemical texts. The preface to the book was written by Pavel Basinsky, winner of the Big Book Prize, biographer of Leo Tolstoy.