“Chikafu changu chakanyanya kubikwa nehotmeal, iyo ndinodya kaviri pazuva nechingwa chezviyo. Mukuwedzera, pakudya kwemanheru ndinodya muto wekabichi kana mbatatisi soup, buckwheat porridge kana mbatatisi yakabikwa kana yakakangwa musunflower kana mafuta emasitadhi, uye compote yemaprunes nemaapuro. Zvokudya zvemasikati zvandinodya nemhuri yangu zvinogona kutsiviwa, sezvandakaedza kuita, neoatmeal imwe, ndiko kudya kwangu kukuru. Hutano hwangu hauna kungotambura chete, asi hwakavandudzika zvakanyanya kubva pandakasiya mukaka, bota nemazai, pamwe neshuga, tii nekofi, "Leo Tolstoy akanyora.
Munyori mukuru akauya nepfungwa yezvinomera pazera remakumi mashanu. Izvi zvaive zvakakonzerwa nekuti iyi nguva yehupenyu hwake yakaratidzwa nekutsvagisa kunorwadza kwehuzivi uye yemweya zvinoreva hupenyu hwevanhu. “Zvino, pakupera kwamakumi mana angu, ndine chinhu chiri chose chinowanzonzwisiswa nokugara zvakanaka,” anodaro Tolstoy mubhuku rake rakakurumbira rinonzi Confession. “Asi ndakazoerekana ndaona kuti handizivi kuti nei ndichida zvose izvi uye kuti ndinoraramirei. Basa rake pabhuku rinonzi Anna Karenina, iro rairatidza kufunga kwake pamusoro petsika netsika dzehukama hwevanhu, rakatanga panguva imwe chete.
Kurudziro yokuva anodya miriwo akasimba yakanga yakaitika apo Tolstoy akanga ari chapupu asingazivi nezvokuurawa kwaiitwa nguruve. Chiratidziro chakavhundutsa munyori nehutsinye hwacho zvekuti akafunga kuenda kune imwe yenzvimbo dzekuuraya dzeTula kuti anzwe manzwiro ake zvakanyanya. Pamberi pemeso ake, nzombe duku yakaisvonaka yakaurawa. Mubhucha akasimudza banga pahuro ndokubaya. Nzombe, yakaita seinodonhedzwa pasi, yakawira pasi nedumbu rayo, ichiumburuka nerutivi rwayo ichiita zvokugwinha netsoka dzayo. Imwe bhucha yakawira paari kubva kune rimwe divi, yakakotamisa musoro pasi ndokucheka huro. Ropa dzvuku dema rakabuda semugomo wapidiguka. Ipapo muurayi wokutanga akatanga kuvhiya nzombe. Upenyu hwakanga huchiri kurova muhombe yemhuka iyi, uye misodzi mikuru yakanga yoyerera mumaziso akanga akazara ropa.
Uyu mufananidzo unotyisa wakaita kuti Tolstoy afunge zvakare zvakanyanya. Akanga asingakwanisi kuzviregerera pachake nokuda kwokusadzivisa kuurawa kwezvisikwa zvipenyu nokudaro ndokuva mupari werufu rwazvo. Kwaari, murume akakurira mutsika dzeRussian Orthodoxy, murairo mukuru wechiKristu - "Usauraya" - akawana chirevo chitsva. Kupfurikidza nokudya nyama yemhuka, munhu anobatanidzwa nenzira isina kunanga mukuponda, nokudaro achiputsa tsika dzorudzidziso nedzetsika. Kuti uzviise muboka revanhu vane tsika, zvakakosha kuti uzvisunungure pachedu mutoro wekuuraya zvipenyu - kurega kudya nyama yavo. Tolstoy pachake anoramba zvachose kudya kwemhuka uye anoshandura kune kudya kusina kuuraya.
Kubva panguva iyoyo zvichienda mberi, mumabhuku ake akati wandei, munyori anovandudza pfungwa yekuti chirevo chetsika - tsika - chekudya miriwo chiri mukusabvumidzwa kwemhirizhonga chero ipi zvayo. Anoti munzanga yevanhu, mhirizhonga ichange ichitonga kusvikira chisimba chinoitirwa mhuka chapera. Saka kudya zvirimwa ndiyo imwe yenzira huru dzekugumisa uipi huri kuitika munyika. Mukuwedzera, hutsinye kumhuka chiratidzo chekuderera kwekuziva uye tsika, kusakwanisa kunyatsonzwa uye kunzwira tsitsi nezvose zvipenyu. Muchinyorwa "The First Danho", rakabudiswa muna 1892, Tolstoy anonyora kuti danho rokutanga pakuvandudzwa kwetsika nekunamata kwemunhu ndiko kurambwa kwechisimba kune vamwe, uye kutanga kwekushanda iwe pachako nenzira iyi ndiyo shanduko kune vamwe. kudya kwemiriwo.
Mumakore 25 okupedzisira oupenyu hwake, Tolstoy akashingaira kusimudzira pfungwa dzokudya miriwo muRussia. Akabatsira mukusimudzira magazini yeVegetarianism, maakanyora zvinyorwa zvake, akatsigira kuburitswa kwezvinhu zvakasiyana-siyana pamusoro pezvinomera mumapepanhau, akagamuchira kuvhurwa kwemataveni ezvinomera, mahotera, uye aive nhengo inoremekedzwa yeruzhinji nzanga dzezvinomera.
Zvisinei, maererano naTolstoy, miriwo inongova imwe yezvikamu zvehutsika hwevanhu uye tsika. Kukwana kwetsika nekunamata kunogoneka chete kana munhu akasiya nhamba huru yezvishuvo zvakasiyana-siyana zvaanoisa pasi pehupenyu hwake. Mafiro akadaro Tolstoy akati ainyanya kukonzerwa neusimbe uye kukara. Mudhayari yake, pane chinyorwa chakabuda pamusoro pechinangwa chekunyora bhuku "Zranie". Mariri, aida kuratidza pfungwa yokuti kusava nemwero muzvinhu zvose, kusanganisira zvokudya, kunoreva kusaremekedza zvakatipoteredza. Mhedzisiro yeiyi kunzwa kwehasha maererano nemasikirwo, kurudzi rwavo - kune zvese zvipenyu. Kana vanhu vakanga vasina utsinye, Tolstoy anotenda, uye haana kuparadza izvo zvinovapa hupenyu, kuwirirana kwakakwana kwaizotonga munyika.