The article is aimed to consider the genre of prayer presented in the diaries of Leo Tolstoy. An analysis of the entries reveals that over the course of his life Tolstoy recorded several dozen prayers he made up. The article examines recorded appeals to God in syntactic. semantic and pragmatic terms. https://www.roneverhart.com/Echo-Fix-EF-P2-Spring-Reverb-Pedal-p32083/