Аннотация:Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy – an important Russian writer and philosopher, even more known as a pedagogue-theorist and teacher, who influenced by his thoughts about education from a personal philosophical and religious point of view Russian and foreign (European) philosophical-pedagogical thinking. They were offered new philosophical and
pedagogical solutions to educational and study problems as phenomena of culture. An important role in the pedagogical theory of L. N. Tolstoy is interested in the idea of free education, which is closely associated with the author's personal philosophical-idealistic and political views. The basis of all his views was a belief in eternal absolute truth and a desire for all people to learn from the “wiser” those who, with respect to people other than the “teachers” of this eternal and absolute truth, have dedicated their thoughts to their lives, feelings and will, and through this they were able to educate – to bring to the “truth of life” entrusted to them. An outstanding feature of L. N. Tolstoy is an organic synthesis of religious-moral and scientific truths that manifest in man through faith and knowledge. An attempt is made to present the ideas of L. N. Tolstoy from the position of her orientation on the religious and moral aspect of the education of a young person. On the basis of an analysis of the article “About education” from 1909 the author presents a synthesis of the theory of humanistic education L. N. Tolstoy, based on a religious and
moral aspect, the axis of which is the teaching of the continual moral self-improvement of man throughout his life.