"Posthumous Notes of the Hermit Fyodor Kuzmits" is an unfinished short story by Leo Tolstoy, published two years after the author's death despite strong objections from Tsarist censorship.

During the life of hermit Fyodor Kuzmits, who appeared in Siberia in 1836 and lived there in various places for twenty-seven years, strange rumors circulated that - hiding...