The Bear Hunt

By Leo Tolstoy

The adventure here narrated is one that happened to Tolstoy himself in 1858. More than twenty years later he gave up hunting, on humanitarian grounds. The story is set in the time when bears were still found in the forests of Russia. The hunters are afraid of the bear and they shoot at it from a distance. But the bear does not die and it comes closer to the hunters.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Interactive Media
• Release date: Jan 3, 2017
• ISBN: 9781787240445

Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in Tula, near Moscow. His parents, who both died when he was young, belonged to the Russian nobility, and to the end of his life Tolstoy remained conscious of his aristocratic status. His novels, ‘War and Peace’ and ‘Anna Karenina’ are literary classics and he is revered as one of the greatest writers of the nineteenth century. He died in 1910 at the age of 82.

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THE BEAR HUNT

THE BEAR HUNT

The adventure here narrated is one that happened

to Tolstoy himself in 1858. More than twenty years later

he gave up hunting, on humanitarian grounds.

We were out on a bear-hunting expedition. My comrade had shot at a bear, but only gave him a flesh-wound. There were traces of blood on the snow, but the bear had got away.

We all collected in a group in the forest, to decide whether we ought to go after the bear at once, or wait two or three days till he should settle down again. We asked the peasant bear-drivers whether it would be possible to get round the bear