“The Death of Ivan Ilyich” is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, written in 1886. The work tells the story of a dying man, the high-ranking judge Ivan Ilyich Golovin, who re-evaluates his life in the face of death. The novella explores themes of death, the meaning of life, social conventions, and true human values. It is one of the most significant works of Tolstoy’s later period, in which he deeply analyzes the existential questions of human existence.