L.N. Tolstoy in Croatia Text, which is prof. Josip Badalich sent to Selca in 1978 for the celebration of the 150th anniversary of birthday L.N. Tolstoy

The book "100. obljetnica prvog na svijetu spomenika L.N. Tolstoju u Selcima na otoku Bracu 1914.-2014." dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the first in the world, according to the authors, the monument to the great Russian writer and thinker L.N. Tolstoy was published in 2014. Of the materials included in the book, the most interesting is the article by Professor Josip Badalich, which briefly describes the history of the creation of this monument The translation of this particular text is presented. For researchers of the history of socio-political thought, his article is interesting not only by mentioning the name of L.N. Tolstoy in a certain historical context, but also because Tolstoyism is interpreted as a manifestation of Slavophilism and Pan-Slavism, and these very concepts are used by Badalich as synonyms.