# The Death of Ivan Ilyich is printed as a dated novella of illness, office, and death

Date: 1886

## The fact

In 1886 The Death of Ivan Ilyich appeared as a dated novella of a judge’s illness and death. The instrument is that print, not a ministry of health circular and not a later hospital statue.

It is one event.

## Context

Moral fiction about dying is still a public book. [Tolstoy](/people/leo-tolstoy).ru and Gutenberg independently carry the text. Do not treat a later medical curriculum citation as this 1886 issue.

Leo Tolstoy’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Conventional years are 1828–1910. Surviving public files are later museum pages, collected-works sites, and encyclopedias. Tolstoy did not typeset those later pages. Posthumous museums and editions are evidence, not acts.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

Tolstoy.ru and Gutenberg independently describe The Death of Ivan Ilyich as an 1880s public text.

Official or archival record: Tolstoy.ru — collected works and estate portal (https://tolstoy.ru/; State Tolstoy Museum / Tolstoy.ru).

## Significance

Health-system literacy path via literature. High confidence on the print year.

## What is established and what is not

Established: the novella was published in the mid-1880s public file. Not established: a measured drop in medicalised denial caused by the tale.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Leo Tolstoy.

They are not a public rating.

The driver `health-system-capacity` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. Leo Tolstoy did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. A death novella is not the Synod definition. Keep 1886 off February 1901. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Leo Tolstoy.
The driver `health-system-capacity` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. Leo Tolstoy did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. A death novella is not the Synod definition. Keep 1886 off February 1901. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Leo Tolstoy.

## People

- Leo Tolstoy: https://factrail.ai/people/leo-tolstoy

## Drivers

- Health-System Capacity: https://factrail.ai/drivers/health-system-capacity

## Sources

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9868
- https://tolstoy.ru/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/lt-ivan-ilyich-1886