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Author : Louise Smoluchowski,graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Putnam Adult
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015011829903
Story of the Tolstoy Marriage.
Author : Rosamund Bartlett
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780151014385
Born into an aristocratic family, Tolstoy had spent his life rebelling not only against conventional ideas about literature and art but also against traditional education, family life, organized religion, and the state. In this exceptional biography, Bartlett delivers an eloquent portrait of the brilliant, maddening, and contrary man who has been discovered by a new generation of readers.
Author : Mary Zirin,Irina Livezeanu,Christine D. Worobec,June Pachuta Farris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2121 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317451976
This is the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and multilingual bibliography on "Women and Gender in East Central Europe and the Balkans (Vol. 1)" and "The Lands of the Former Soviet Union (Vol. 2)" over the past millennium. The coverage encompasses the relevant territories of the Russian, Hapsburg, and Ottoman empires, Germany and Greece, and the Jewish and Roma diasporas. Topics range from legal status and marital customs to economic participation and gender roles, plus unparalleled documentation of women writers and artists, and autobiographical works of all kinds. The volumes include approximately 30,000 bibliographic entries on works published through the end of 2000, as well as web sites and unpublished dissertations. Many of the individual entries are annotated with brief descriptions of major works and the tables of contents for collections and anthologies. The entries are cross-referenced and each volume includes indexes.
Author : Katherine Reay
Publisher : Harper Muse
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781400243044
In the thick of the Cold War, a betrayal at the highest level risks the lives of two courageous female spies: MI6’s best Soviet agent and the CIA’s newest Moscow recruit. Vienna, 1954 After losing everyone she loves in the final days of World War II, Ingrid Bauer agrees to a hasty marriage with a gentle Soviet embassy worker and follows him home to Moscow. But nothing within the Soviet Union’s totalitarian regime is what it seems, including her new husband, whom Ingrid suspects works for the KGB. Inspired by her daughter’s birth, Ingrid risks everything and reaches out in hope to the one country she understands and trusts—Britain, the country of her mother’s birth. She begins passing intelligence to MI6, navigating a world of secrets and lies, light and shadow. Moscow, 1980 A student in the Foreign Studies Initiative, Anya Kadinova finishes her degree at Georgetown University and boards a flight home to Moscow, leaving behind the man she loves and a country she’s grown to respect. Though raised by dedicated and loyal Soviet parents, Anya soon questions an increasingly oppressive and paranoid regime at the height of the Cold War. Then the KGB murders her best friend and Anya chooses her side. Working in a military research lab, she relays Soviet plans and schematics to the CIA in an effort to end the 1980s arms race. The past catches up to the present when an unprecedented act of treachery threatens all agents operating within Eastern Europe, and both Ingrid and Anya find themselves in a race for their lives against time and the KGB. “Eloquently portrays the incredible contributions of women in history, the extraordinary depths of love, and, perhaps most important, the true cost of freedom.” —Kristy Woodson Harvey, New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Veil An exciting story of two brave female spies in Cold War Moscow Includes discussion questions for book clubs
Author : Daniel Rancour-Laferriere
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351471756
The religious dimension of Tolstoy's life is usually associated with his later years following his renunciation of art. In this volume, Daniel Rancour-Laferriere demonstrates instead that Tolstoy was preoccupied with a quest for God throughout all of his adult life. Although renowned as the author of War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Ilych, and other literary works, and for his activism on behalf of the poor and the downtrodden of Russia, Tolstoy himself was concerned primarily with achieving personal union with God.Tolstoy suffered from periodic bouts of depression which brought his creative life to a standstill, and which intensified his need to find comfort in the embrace of a personal God. At times he was in such psychic pain he wanted to die. Yet Tolstoy felt that he deserved to suffer, and he learned to welcome suffering in masochistic fashion. Rancour-Laferriere locates the psychological underpinnings of Tolstoy's suffering in a bipolar illness that led him actively to seek suffering and self-humiliation in the Russian tradition of holy foolishness. With voluntary suffering, and Jesus Christ as his model, Tolstoy advocated nonresistance to evil, and in his daily life he strove never to return evil actions or words with physical or verbal resistance. On the other hand, being bipolar, Tolstoy in some situations would drift in a manic direction, indulging in delusions of grandeur. Indeed, the aging Tolstoy occasionally went so far as to equate himself with God, as can be seen from his diaries and personal correspondence.The pantheistic world view which Tolstoy achieved at the end of his life meant that God was within himself and within all people and all things in the entire universe. By this time Tolstoy was also utilizing images of a mother to represent his God. With this essentially maternal God so conveniently available, there was nowhere Tolstoy could be without Her. For, in the end, Tolstoy's quest for God was a
Author : Софья Андреевна Толстая
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 1251 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780776619224
"One hundred years after his death in 1910. Lev Nikolaevich Leo Tolstoy continues to be regarded as one of the world's greatest writers. Historically, little attention has been paid to his wife, Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya. Acting in the capacity of literary assistant, translator, transcriber and editor, she played an important role in the development of her husband's career. Her memoirs which she entitled My Life - lay dormant for almost a century. Now the book's first-time-ever appearance in Russia is complemented by an unabridged and annotated English translation." "Tolstaya paints an intimate and honest portrait of her husband's character, setting forth new details about his life to which she alone was privy. She describes her extensive correspondence with many prominent figures in Russian and Western society, making My Life a unique account of late-19th- and early-20th-century Russia, with its cast of characters ranging from peasants to the Tsar himself. Her engaging narrative reveals not only her significant contributions to her husband's work but also her considerable talent as an author in her own right."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Brett Cooke
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644694107
What were the consequences of Tolstoy’s unusual reliance on members of his family as source material for War and Peace? Did affection for close relatives influence depictions of these real prototypes in his fictional characters? Tolstoy used these models to consider his origins, to ponder alternative family histories, and to critique himself. Comparison of the novel and its fascinating drafts with the writer’s family history reveals increasing preferential treatment of those with greater relatedness to him: kin altruism, i.e., nepotism. This pattern helps explain many of Tolstoy’s choices amongst plot variants he considered, as well as some of the curious devices he utilizes to get readers to share his biases, such as coincidences, notions of “fate,” and aversion to incest.
Author : Jonathan Rosen
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429956239
Deborah Green is a woman of passionate contradictions--a rabbi who craves goodness and surety while wrestling with her own desires and with the sorrow and pain she sees around her. Her life changes when she visits the hospital room of Henry Friedman, an older man who has attempted suicide. His parents were murdered in the Holocaust when he was a child, and all his life he's struggled with difficult questions. Deborah's encounter with Henry and his family draws her into a world of tragedy, frailty, love, and, finally, hope.
Author : Rosamund Bartlett
Publisher : HMH
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780547545875
This biography of the brilliant author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina “should become the first resort for everyone drawn to its titanic subject” (Booklist, starred review). In November 1910, Count Lev Tolstoy died at a remote Russian railway station. At the time of his death, he was the most famous man in Russia, more revered than the tsar, with a growing international following. Born into an aristocratic family, Tolstoy spent his existence rebelling against not only conventional ideas about literature and art but also traditional education, family life, organized religion, and the state. In “an epic biography that does justice to an epic figure,” Rosamund Bartlett draws extensively on key Russian sources, including fascinating material that has only become available since the collapse of the Soviet Union (Library Journal, starred review). She sheds light on Tolstoy’s remarkable journey from callow youth to writer to prophet; discusses his troubled relationship with his wife, Sonya; and vividly evokes the Russian landscapes Tolstoy so loved and the turbulent times in which he lived.
Author : Anne Edwards
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015040780002
A sympathetic account of Sonya Tolstoy's struggle for independence reveals Sonya to be a forerunner of today's modern woman, showing how her intense love for Tolstoy was diminished by his refusal to see her as her own person.
Author : Raymond Van Zleer
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781490748634
THE GRAY CARDINAL The Wolfpire Saga VOLUME III Books 5 & 6 Yang : Gray Cardinals In the resurrected USSR, the American born wolfpire, Ilyana Yurievna Kirakova, struggles to unleash the Dream mankinds only hope. Standing in her way is the KGB who ruthlessly crush even the mere hint of less than one hundred percent loyalty. Especially within the Communist Party and the KGBs own ranks. Yet within this elite bastion manned by the USSRs staunchest defenders, Ilyana must do more than topple the communists and the KGB. She must find a way to guide the Dream into being and protect the people of this world from the hellish doom that the antichrist intends to unleash. Life would be easier if she did not also have to deal with spies, criminals, traitors, power struggles within the Communist Party and the KGB, her own parents, and a boyfriend. Yin : Old Baba Answers The birth of the Dream begins the ultimate battle between good and evil. A battle far from won, as Ilyana Yurievna Kirakova confronts the ultimate challenge. Molding a new nation and transforming the former USSRs many contentious lands within into a unified nation whose peoples must voluntarily stand shoulder to shoulder against the antichrists evils or be crushed by them. Looming too are major secrets from her past. The timely revelation of one secret will hopefully doom her to death. The untimely revelation of any could destroy the Dream and all of mankind.
Author : Doris Alexander
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271041568
An exploration of the creative process in four classic works: Death in Venice, Treasure Island, The Rub&áiy&át of Mar Khayy&ám, and War and Peace. Creating Literature Out of Life examines four very dissimilar masterpieces and their authors in search of evidence that will answer some of the many questions in the great mystery of creativity. Crossing boundaries of period, nation, and genre, the study looks into the &"why&" and &"how&" of the creation of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, Edward FitzGerald's The Rub&áiy&át of Mar Khayy&ám, and Lev Tolstoy's War and Peace. Doris Alexander finds that each of these works was compelled by an urgent life problem of its author, some of them partly conscious, others completely unconscious, which worked in harmony and counterpoint with the author's conscious theme to shape his work. She traces an interconnected nexus of memories&—personal experiences, ideas, readings&—that came alive in response to the author's problem and served as a reservoir out of which his characters, his images, his story line, and the emotional tone of his work emerged. Creating Literature Out of Life tells the exciting story of how Mann, Stevenson, FitzGerald, and Tolstoy fought out their major life battles in their works.
Author : Elizabeth Cowley Tyler
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781984544124
Violet Hours is a literary potpourri containing Watershed, a novel fragment, Aftermath, a disquisition, The Ventriloquist, a polemic, Indian Passage and Mother’s Day, two short stories, a travel article, and Anna, a play.
Author : Sana Krasikov
Publisher : Random House
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385524407
One More Year is Sana Krasikov’s extraordinary debut collection, illuminating the lives of immigrants from across the terrain of a collapsed Soviet Empire. With novelistic scope, Krasikov captures the fates of people–in search of love and prosperity–making their way in a world whose rules have changed.
Author : Jim Pinnells
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780883434
Sometimes terrorism works..... In the 1880s terrorism, as we understand it today, became a reality when a group of Russian idealists, the People’s Will, decided to sacrifice everything for a single goal: a fair and free society. Their plan, driven by Sonya Perovskaya, was to assassinate the Tsar. Once he was gone, they believed, some form of democracy must follow. And the plan succeeded – despite legions of secret police protecting the Tsar’s every movement, Sonya and her little band hounded him to death. But in every other respect they failed. Repression – not freedom – followed the assassination. In destroying the Tsar they destroyed themselves, their lives, their integrity, their very ideals. Saturn’s Daughters is the story of this failure. The birth of a movement, the death of dictator and the self-destruction of the women and men who were first to call themselves terrorists. They began as idealists, they ended as psychopaths. Sometimes terrorism works. Mostly it leads to disaster.