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Author : Sofʹi︠a︡ Andreevna Tolstai︠a︡
Publisher : Jonathan Cape
Page : 1138 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015011267245
Author : Cathy Porter
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 645 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062029362
“[A] testament to a great spirit, a woman who lived in terrifying proximity to one of the greatest writers of all time, and who understood exactly the high price she would have to pay for this privilege.” —Jay Parini, author of The Last Station Translated by Cathy Porter and with an introduction by Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing, The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy chronicles in extraordinary detail the diarist’s remarkable marriage to the legendary man of letters, Count Leo Tolstoy, author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Set against the backdrop of Russia’s turbulent history at the turn of the 20th century, The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy offers a fascinating look at a remarkable era, a complicated artist, and the extraordinary woman who stood at his side.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1043 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:610300317
Author : Alexandra Popoff
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1416559906
As Leo Tolstoy’s wife, Sophia Tolstoy experienced both glory and condemnation during their forty-eight-year marriage. She was admired as the muse and literary assistant to one of the world’s most celebrated novelists. But when in later years Tolstoy became a towering public figure and founded a new brand of religion, she was scorned for her disagreements with him. And it is this version of Sophia—malicious, shrill, perennially at war with Tolstoy—that has gone down in the historical record. Drawing on newly available archival material, including Sophia’s unpublished memoir, Alexandra Popoff presents a dramatically different and accurate portrait of the woman and the marriage. This lively, well-researched biography demonstrates that, contrary to popular belief, Sophia was remarkably supportive of Tolstoy and was, in fact, key to his fame. Gifted and versatile, Sophia assisted Tolstoy during the writing of War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Having modeled his most memorable female characters on her, Tolstoy admired his wife’s boundless energy, which he called “the force of life.” Sophia’s letters, never before translated, illuminate the couple’s true relationship and provide insights into Tolstoy’s creative laboratory. Although long portrayed as an elitist and hysterical countess, Sophia was in reality a practical, independent-minded, generous, and talented woman who shared Tolstoy’s important values and his capacity for work. Mother of thirteen, she participated in Tolstoy’s causes and managed all business a airs. Popoff describes in haunting detail the intrusion into their marriage by Tolstoy’s religious disciple Vladimir Chertkov, who controlled Tolstoy at the end of his life and led a smear campaign against Sophia, branding her evil and mad. She is still judged by Chertkov’s false accounts, which dismissed her valuable achievements and contributions. During his later religious phase, Tolstoy renounced his property and copyright, and Sophia had to become the breadwinner. She published Tolstoy’s collected works and supported their large family. Despite the pressures of her demanding life, she realized her own talents as a writer, photographer, translator, and aspiring artist. This vigorous, engrossing biography presents in fascinating depth and detail the many ways in which Sophia Tolstoy enriched the life and work of one of the world’s most revered authors.
Author : Sofia Tolstoy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0714548340
When Sofia Behrs married Count Leo Tolstoy, the author of ""War and Peace"", husband and wife regularly exchanged diaries covering the years from 1862 to 1910. This edition contains a foreword by Doris Lessing.
Author : Sofʹi︠a︡ Andreevna Tolstai︠a︡,Leah Bendavid-Val
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1426201737
In a first-ever publishing event, the remarkable photography and writings of Countess Sophia Tolstoy reveal the unfolding of her life with her famous husband--and evocatively portray a glittering world that soon would fade away. 120 photographs.
Author : Софья Андреевна Толстая
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 1251 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : Michael R. Katz
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780300210392
A work unprecedented in world literature, this unique volume contains a new translation of Lev Tolstoy’s controversial novella The Kreutzer Sonata, which was initially banned by Russian censors. In addition, available to English readers for the first time is a fascinating and previously neglected constellation of counterstories written by the author’s wife and son in direct response to Tolstoy’s provocative tale, each a passionate attempt to undo the message of the original work. These radically conflicting tales, accompanied by excerpts from family letters, diaries, notes, and memoirs, provide readers with a vivid and highly revealing case study of the powerful disputes concerning sexuality and gender roles that erupted within the cultural context of late-nineteenth-century Russian, as well as European, society.
Author : Lev Nikolaevič Tolstoj
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0571269044
Author : Mariëlle Wijermars
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351007184
This book examines the societal dynamics of memory politics in Russia. Since Vladimir Putin became president, the Russian central government has increasingly actively employed cultural memory to claim political legitimacy and discredit all forms of political opposition. The rhetorical use of the past has become a defining characteristic of Russian politics, creating a historical foundation for the regime’s emphasis on a strong state and centralised leadership. Exploring memory politics, this book analyses a wide range of actors, from the central government and the Russian Orthodox Church, to filmmaker and cultural heavyweight Nikita Mikhalkov and radical thinkers such as Aleksandr Dugin. In addition, in view of the steady decline in media freedom since 2000, it critically examines the role of cinema and television in shaping and spreading these narratives. Thus, this book aims to gain a better understanding of the various means through which the Russian government practices its memory politics (e.g., the role of state media) and, on the other hand, to sufficiently value the existence of alternative and critical voices and criticism that existing studies tend to overlook. Contributing to current debates in the field of memory studies and of current affairs in Russia and Eastern Europe, this book will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of Russian Studies, Cultural Memory Studies, Nationalism and National Identity, Political Communication, Film, Television and Media Studies.
Author : Bob Blaisdell
Publisher : Pegasus Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1643134620
The story behind the origins of Anna Karenina and the turbulent life and times of Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina is one of the most nuanced characters in world literature and we return to her, and the novel she propels, again and again. Remarkably, there has not yet been an examination of Leo Tolstoy specifically through the lens of this novel. Critic and professor Bob Blaisdell unravels Tolstoy’s family, literary, and day-to-day life during the period that he conceived, drafted, abandoned, and revised Anna Karenina. In the process, we see where Tolstoy’s life and his art intersect in obvious and unobvious ways. Readers often assume that Tolstoy, a nobleman-turned-mystic would write himself into the principled Levin. But in truth, it is within Anna that the consciousness and energy flows with the same depth and complexities as Tolstoy. Her fateful suicide is the road that Tolstoy nearly traveled himself. At once a nuanced biography and portrait of the last decades of the Russian empire and artful literary examination, Creating Anna Karenina will enthrall the thousands of readers whose lives have become deeper and clearer after experiencing this hallmark of world literature.
Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1015440584
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Judith Strick Dribben
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015054099919
The experience of a European Jewess active in the Polish underground who, after surviving a number of prisons, became an intelligence officer in the Negev.
Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Pushkin Collection
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782275411
Fresh translations of Tolstoy's four richest shorter works by the award-winning Boris Dralyuk Tolstoy's stories contain many of the most acutely observed moments in his monumental body of work. This new selection of his shorter works, sensitively translated by the award-winning Boris Dralyuk, showcases the peerless economy with which Tolstoy could render the passions and conflicts of a life. These are works that take us from a self-interested judge's agonising deathbed to the bristling social world of horses in a stable yard, from the joyful vanity of youth to the painful doubts of sickness and old age. With unwavering precision, Tolstoy's eye brings clarity and richness to the simplest materials.
Author : Sofʹi︠a︡ Andreevna Tolstai︠a︡
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Authors' spouses
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002577356
