A CONFESSION
A Confession
by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
I
I was baptized and brought up in the Orthodox Christian faith.
I was taught it in childhood and throughout my boyhood and youth.
But when I abandoned the second course of the university at the age
of eighteen I no longer believed any of the things I had been
taught.
Judging by certain memories, I never seriously believed them,
but had merely rel ...