Resurrection, Leo Tolstoy's final novel, follows Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov, a wealthy aristocrat serving on a jury who recognizes the accused—Maslova, a prostitute charged with poisoning—as the innocent servant girl he seduced and abandoned years earlier. Consumed by guilt when she is wrongly sentenced to Siberia, Nekhlyudov abandons his privileged life to seek her pardon and redeem his soul. As he follows her into exile, confronting injustice, corruption, and hypocrisy at every level of Russian society, both embark on profound spiritual journeys. A sweeping indictment of social inequality, Resurrection is ultimately a moving meditation on guilt, forgiveness, and moral rebirth.
