"'My Confession' is in a very different style and genre of writing: it is a first-person account of Tolstoy's own spiritual journey from his rejection of religion as a young man through his rediscovery of the Orthodox church in middle age to his final rejection of the myths and falsehoods of the established church (from the Trinity to the Eucharist) while embracing the simplest moral teachings of Jesus himself."

-The New Yorker