The sentence in the excerpt from leo Tolstoy's the death of ivan Ilyich that shows that ivan Ilyich's son is still innocent and uncorrupted despite the people around him is : Following him, the schoolboy crept in unnoticed, in a new uniform, poor little fellow, and wearing gloves.
No, because as you said it "does NOT contain fact-based details" therefore it is not reliable. If something doesn't contain fact-based details, it isn't reliable.