The Two Brothers and the Gold"The Two Brothers and the Gold" is a short story by Leo Tolstoy written in 1885.InfluenceAccording to Nadejda Gorodetzky, this story discusses the joys of poverty if poverty is willingly accepted. According to the Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy, one should regard this text as different from other of Tolstoy's works, in that the narrator's stance is more objective and neutral.Publication historyThe work was published in collections in 1882, in 1903, and again in 2016.