Bibliograph

Tolstoy, a Russian life, Rosamund Bartlett

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Tolstoy, a Russian life, Rosamund Bartlett

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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genealogical tablesillustrationsportraitsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Tolstoy

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

666239940

Responsibility statement

Rosamund Bartlett

Sub title

a Russian life

Summary

Bartlett draws extensively on key Russian sources, including much fascinating new material made available since the collapse of the Soviet Union. She sheds light on Tolstoy's remarkable journey from callow youth to writer to prophet; discusses his troubled relationship with his wife, Sonya, a subject long neglected; and vividly evokes the Russian landscapes Tolstoy so loved. Above all, she gives us an eloquent portrait of the brilliant, maddening, and contrary man who has, once again, been discovered by a new generation of readers

Table Of Contents

Ancestors: the Tolstoys and the Volkonskys -- Aristocratic childhood -- Orphanhood -- Youth -- Landowner, gambler, officer, writer -- Literary duellist and repentant nobleman -- Husband, beekeeper, and epic poet -- Student, teacher, father -- Novelist -- Pilgrim, nihilist, muzhik -- Sectarian, anarchist, holy fool -- Elder, apostate, and tsar -- Epilogue: Patriarch of the Bolsheviks

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