<Tr> <Th> Author </Th> <Td> Leo Tolstoy </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Country </Th> <Td> Russia </Td> </Tr> <P> "God Sees the Truth, But Waits" (Russian: "Бог правду видит, да не скоро скажет", "Bog pravdu vidit da ne skoro skazhet") is a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy first published in 1872 . The story, about a man sent to prison for a murder he didn't commit, takes the form of a parable of forgiveness . English translations were also published under titles "The Confessed Crime" and "Exiled to Siberia". The concept of the story of a man wrongfully accused of murder and banished to Siberia also appears in one of Tolstoy's previous works, War and Peace, during a philosophical discussion between two characters who relate the story and argue how the protagonist of their story deals with injustice and fate . </P> <P> Ivan Dmitrich Aksionov is a merchant living in Vladimir, a town in Russia . Although Aksionov is prone to drinking, he is not violent, and he is responsible and well liked by people that know him . One day he decides to go to a fair as a business venture, but his wife pleads for him not to go because of a nightmare she had the previous night . Aksionov disregards his wife's dream and leaves for the fair . </P>

Summary of the story god sees the truth but waits