"Ylösnousemus III" by graf Leo Tolstoy is a novel published in 1899. A nobleman serving on a jury recognizes the accused prostitute as a young woman he seduced and abandoned years earlier, now wrongly convicted of murder. Confronted by his past sin, he embarks on a quest for redemption that leads him into Russia's brutal prison system, where he witnesses shocking injustice and suffering. As he follows her into Siberian exile, he must reckon with his privilege and the vast world of cruelty hidden beneath aristocratic society. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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