世界文豪托尔斯泰对我国古代伟大思想家孔子、老子的推崇和悉心研究,实为中俄文化交流中的一段佳话。19世纪70年代末80年代初,托尔斯泰的世界观发生了激变。他认识到他所属的俄国上层贵族地主阶级的剥削、寄生生活是可耻的,他们的信仰、道德是虚伪的,因此与这个阶级的一切传统观念决裂了,而将立足点转移到宗法制农民一边。他在记录自己思想转变过程的《忏悔录》中说过:“信仰是生活的力量??没有信仰就无法生 Tolstoy, a writer of the world, praised and studied Confucius and Lao Tzu, ancient great thinkers in our country, as a real story in the cultural exchange between China and Russia. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Tolstoy’s worldview changed dramatically. He realized that the exploitation and parasitic life of the upper-class aristocrat landlord in his own country was shameful. His faith and morals were hypocritical, so he broke away from all traditional concepts of this class and shifted his foothold to the side of the patriarchal peasant . In his ”Confessions“, which document the process of his thought transformation, he said: ”Faith is the power of life.