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Author : Lev Nikolaevič Tolstoj
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0571269044
Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : IND:30000044436453
Author : Cathy Porter
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 645 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : Reginald F Christian,Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780571324064
An important and long-overdue contribution to our knowledge of Tolstoy.' D. M. Thomas, Sunday Times Volume 2 of Tolstoy's Diaries covers the years 1895-1910. These Diaries were meticulously edited by R.F. Christian so as to reflect Tolstoy's preoccupations as a writer (his views on his own work and that of others), his development as a person and as a thinker, and his attitudes to contemporary social problems, rural life, industrialisation, education, and later, to religious and spiritual questions. Christian introduces each period with a brief and informative summary of the main biographical details of Tolstoy's life. The result is a unique portrait of a great writer in the variegation of his everyday existence. 'As a picture of the turbulent Russian world which Tolstoy inhabited these diaries are incomparable - the raw stuff not yet processed into art.' Anthony Burgess 'A model of scholarship, one of the most important books to be published in recent years.' A. N. Wilson, Spectator
Author : Reginald F Christian,Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780571324040
'An important and long-overdue contribution to our knowledge of Tolstoy.' D. M. Thomas, Sunday Times Volume 1 of Tolstoy's Diaries covers the years 1847-1894 and was meticulously edited by R.F. Christian so as to reflect Tolstoy's preoccupations as a writer (his views on his own work and that of others), his development as a person and as a thinker, and his attitudes to contemporary social problems, rural life, industrialisation, education, and later, to religious and spiritual questions. Christian introduces each period with a brief and informative summary of the main biographical details of Tolstoy's life. The result is a unique portrait of a great writer in the variegation of his everyday existence. 'As a picture of the turbulent Russian world which Tolstoy inhabited these diaries are incomparable - the raw stuff not yet processed into art.' Anthony Burgess 'A model of scholarship, one of the most important books to be published in recent years.' A. N. Wilson, Spectator
Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Authors, Russian
ISBN : UOM:39015011267807
Author : Sofʹi︠a︡ Andreevna Tolstai︠a︡,Leah Bendavid-Val
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,8 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 : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Novelists, Russian
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004730748
Author : Alexandra Popoff
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,5 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 : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1974322491
When the records of a great man's life are in question it is not so much the culmination-a matter of common knowledge-which interests one, but rather the first steps, the early indications of what he was eventually to prove himself. Of Tolstoy's Diaries, of which only a portion relating to his latter years has hitherto been published, it may be said that the good wine has been kept till now. The vintage of Tolstoy's youth holds in a rare degree the essence of his matured philosophy...
Author : Alexandra Popoff
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781605987279
On the snowy morning of February 8, 1897, the Petersburg secret police were following Tolstoy's every move, and he was always in the company of a man named Certkov. At sixty-nine, Russia's most celebrated writer was being treated like a major criminal, and had abandoned his literary pursuits and become a spiritual mystic, angering the Orthodox church and earning both the admination and ire of his countrymen. Tolstoy was recognizable enough, with his peasant garb and beard, but who was the man who towered over Tolstoy, twenty years younger, with a cold, impenetrable look on his face?This man, Chertkov, was a relative to the Tsars and nephew to the chief of the secret police and represented the very things Tolstoy had renounced—class privilege, unlimited power, and wealth—and yet Chertkov fascinated and attracted Tolstoy. He would become the writer's closest confidant, reading even his diary, and at the end of Tolstoy's life, Chertkov had him in his complete control, preventing him from even seeing his own wife on his deathbed.
Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : New York : Arno Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038850033
Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Authors, Russian
ISBN : UOM:39015011267278
Author : Laura Engelstein,Stephanie Sandler
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501723933
Russians have often been characterized as people with souls rather than selves. Self and Story in Russian History challenges the portrayal of the Russian character as selfless, self-effacing, or self-torturing by exploring the texts through which Russians have defined themselves as private persons and shaped their relation to the cultural community. The stories of self under consideration here reflect the perspectives of men and women from the last two hundred years, ranging from westernized nobles to simple peasants, from such famous people as Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Akhmatova, and Nicholas II to lowly religious sectarians. Fifteen distinguished historians and literary scholars situate the narratives of self in their historical context and show how, since the eighteenth century, Russians have used expressive genres—including diaries, novels, medical case studies, films, letters, and theater—to make political and moral statements. The first book to examine the narration of self as idea and ideal in Russia, this vital work contemplates the shifting historical manifestations of identity, the strategies of self-creation, and the diversity of narrative forms. Its authors establish that there is a history of the individual in Russian culture roughly analogous to the one associated with the West.