church well he was religious in this way that you get in the novels i think if you think of pierre or prince andrew in one piece if you think of the of the in in. the worldly young man. soldiers or landowners and people very much like himself arest attracts with women trouble and all that and then they reach a crisis in their lives and they turn to what it's all about to member prince andrew thinking he's dying. and then what it's all about is this great stride. you can identify with the ministry of nature tolstoy was full of that to the end of his days where he parted company with the church was over the claim that for example the miracles were literally true or that the church had the right to dictate to men and women what they believed in what they thought and how they should behave and so he fell out with the church in a very very big way and they eventually after he wrote the novel called resurrection which has a lamp of the holy liturgy of the orthodox church in it the extreme indicated to him didn't make any difference to him because he hadn't been going to communion anyway but he was excomm