{"id":347,"date":"2024-04-26T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.idrisstone.com\/?p=347"},"modified":"2026-04-19T18:31:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T18:31:45","slug":"the-death-of-ivan-ilyich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idrisstone.com\/?p=347","title":{"rendered":"The Death of Ivan Ilyich"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Leo Tolstoy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A carefree Russian official has what seems to be a trivial accident&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My second Russian literature book. It tells the story of Ivan, the second born son and his career in the Russian legal system. We see him go through a spotless career, earning promotion after promotion as he rises to become a judge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He marries, has children and one day when everything seems to be going well he falls ill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The book relates the story of his gruelling battle with death and his frustration with his family spills over. Clearly, he is in pain and scared. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ivan feels his death to be unjust, especially as he has led what he believes to a moral life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">towards the end he reckons his life to somewhat difficult as he compromises to her servant Gerasim, a peasant boy with a kind and gentle nature who is one of the few who treat him with compassion and sympathy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The book ends with Ivan drawing his last breath he releases his life was not about what it should have been bit an be put right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Leo Tolstoy A carefree Russian official has what seems to be a trivial accident&#8230; My second Russian literature book. It tells the story of Ivan, the second born son and his career in the Russian legal system. We see him go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classics","category-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.idrisstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/death_of_ivan_ilyich-1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idrisstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idrisstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idrisstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idrisstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idrisstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.idrisstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"https:\/\/www.idrisstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idrisstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idrisstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idrisstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idrisstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}