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    Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (/ˈtoʊlstɔɪ, ˈtɒl-/; Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой, IPA: [ˈlʲef nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ tɐlˈstoj] ; 9 September [O.S. 28 August] 1828 –...
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    Russian author Lev Tolstoy. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, the work comprises both a fictional narrative and chapters in which Tolstoy discusses history...
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    Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Алексей Николаевич Толстой; 10 January 1883 [O.S. 29 December 1882] – 23 February 1945) was a Russian writer whose...
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    Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (Russian: Граф Алексе́й Константи́нович Толсто́й; September 5 [O.S. August 24] 1817 – October 10 [O.S. September...
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    Anna Karenina (category Novels by Leo Tolstoy)
    kɐˈrʲenʲɪnə]) is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in book form in 1878. Tolstoy called it his first true novel. It was initially...
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  • novella by Leo Tolstoy. It was written in 1889, given an alternative ending in 1909, but published only posthumously in 1911. Like Tolstoy's The Kreutzer...
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    Count Sergei Lvovich Tolstoy (Russian: Сергей Львович Толстой; 10 July 1863, Yasnaya Polyana – 23 December 1947, Moscow) was a composer and ethnomusicologist...
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  • Khodynka: An Incident of the Coronation of Nicholas II (category Short stories by Leo Tolstoy)
    (2015). R. F. Christian (ed.). Tolstoy's Diaries Volume 2: 1895-1910. Faber & Faber. Alexandra Popoff (2010). Sophia Tolstoy: A Biography. Free Press. p...
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    Tatiana Sukhotina-Tolstaya (category Tolstoy family)
    (ed.). The Tolstoy Home: Diaries of Tatiana Sukhotin Tolstoy. London: Harvill Press. ASIN B000KNKSXG. "Tolstaya Tatiana Lvovna". Tolstoy Family. Archived...
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    agnostic. Tolstoy, more than Dostoyevsky, at first anyway, rather despised Turgenev. While traveling together in Paris, Tolstoy wrote in his diary, "Turgenev...
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    Cemetery. Actor Aleksey Petrenko portrayed Chertkov in the 1984 film Lev Tolstoy. Actor Paul Giamatti portrayed Chertkov in the 2009 film The Last Station...
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  • A Letter to a Hindu (category Works by Leo Tolstoy)
    Hindu" (also known as "A Letter to a Hindoo") was a letter written by Leo Tolstoy to Tarak Nath Das on 14 December 1908. The letter was written in response...
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    The Forged Coupon (category Novellas by Leo Tolstoy)
    Finland. Leo Tolstoy bibliography R. F. Christian, Tolstoy's Diaries Volume II 1895-1910 (1985) Athlone Press, p. 452. December 13, 1897, Tolstoy lists The...
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    and biographies about such authors as Laurence Sterne, Maxim Gorky, Leo Tolstoy, and Vladimir Mayakovsky, he wrote a number of semi-autobiographical works...
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  • August 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2013. Tolstoy, Sofia (2010). Cathy Porter (ed.). The Diaries of Sophia Tolstoy (1st ed.). New York: HarperCollins. p. 381...
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  • Krishnamurti to Himself (category Diaries)
    V. (October 2021). "The Phenomenon of Consciousness in the Works of Lev Tolstoy and Jiddu Krishnamurti". Russian Studies in Philosophy. 59 (5). Taylor...
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  • The Inevitable Revolution (category Books by Leo Tolstoy)
    Inevitable Revolution (Неизбежный переворот) is an essay written by Leo Tolstoy on July 5, 1909 about abolishing the law of violence and replacing it with...
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  • The Last Station (novel) (category Cultural depictions of Leo Tolstoy)
    the story of the final year in the life of Leo Tolstoy, told from multiple viewpoints, including Tolstoy's young secretary, Valentin Bulgakov, his wife...
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    Publishers, 1949. Retrieved 1 March 2012. Lev Tolstoy's letter to Alexander Ostrovsky, 29 January 1857. L.N. Tolstoy. Letters to Russian writers. Moscow, 1962...
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  • Story of One Appointment (category Works about Leo Tolstoy)
    unexpected source – none other than Count Tolstoy. Deeply moved by the impassioned plea for justice, Count Tolstoy commits himself wholeheartedly to the cause...
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    1917 My Recollections of Tolstoy, 1919 Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Andreyev, 1920–1928 Fragments from My Diary (Заметки из дневника), 1924...
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    stories of that time, "The Steam Chicken" (Russky Vestnik), was lauded by Lev Tolstoy. Uspensky's book of essays Living Numbers (on the life of workers in...
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    Tennyson, Anthony Trollope, Henry Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Leo Tolstoy. Dostoevsky made his fourth and final visit to Ems in early August 1879...
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    which placed him second in literary celebrity only to Tolstoy, who outlived him by six years. Tolstoy was an early admirer of Chekhov's short stories and...
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  • Review of Books. Retrieved 31 October 2021. Tolstoy Studies Journal: Ellis, Frank. "Concepts of War in L.N. Tolstoy and V.S. Grossman." Volume II, 1989, pp...
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    hubbub. The House of the Dead was the only work by Dostoevsky that Leo Tolstoy revered. He saw it as exalted religious art, inspired by deep faith and...
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  • 1848 in a rank of sotnik. There got acquainted to Leo Tolstoy, who mentions Constantine in his diaries. Iosif Alexandrovich Trishatny (Russian: Иосиф Александрович...
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    famous authors (e.g.: Pushkin and Gogol tripping over each other; Count Leo Tolstoy showing his chamber pot to the world; Pushkin and his sons falling off...
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  • publication of its kind, and the outlet for both Ivan Turgenev and Leo Tolstoy. Dostoevsky, having been engaged in polemical debates with Katkov in the...
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    height, unruly brown hair, glasses continually perched on his nose, and Tolstoy shirt worn under his jacket, Sverdlov looked like a student, and for us...
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