When, on the blustery evening of October 31, 1910, a senior doctor of a railway outpatient clinic at Astapovo station was urgently summoned to the patient, he did not suspect . What will be the outcome of this meeting . In the house of the head of the station died the great Russian writer, philosopher and at the same time excommunicated heretic, Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy. It was the station doctor, an untrained psychiatrist who had to become a “confessor” of the genius, to understand the contradictions of his life, creativity and intrafamily relations, and also to make his medical judgment, making a diagnosis: affect-epilepsia . Horrible, shocking facts were learned by a modest provincial doctor, asking unusual questions. Why did the great writer go to see the autopsy of the dead body of a woman he knew? Why were skeletons of newborns found in the attic of his closest relative's house? Why did his own son call the writer rubbish and refuse to communicate with him? Why was the writer's wife so jealous of her husband's secretary and publisher? Why did this publisher not allow Tolstoy to die , Not allowing him to reconcile with the church?The narrative is built on the basis of authentic documents that have come down to us. Letters and diaries of the writer and his relatives .