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Tolstoy: A Russian Life Book

Tolstoy's "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina" are considered two of the greatest novels ever written. Here is a fresh perspective on his extraordinary life and times. In November 1910 Count Lev Tolstoy died at a remote Russian railway station attended by the world's media. He was eighty-two years old and had lived a remarkable and long life during one of the most turbulent periods of Russian history. Born into a privileged aristocratic family he seemed set to join the ranks of degenerate Russian noblemen but fighting in the Crimean war alongside rank and file soldiers opened his eyes to Russia's social problems and he threw himself into teaching the peasantry to read and write. After his marriage he wrote "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina" both regarded as two of the greatest novels in world literature. Rosamund Bartlett's exceptional biography of this brilliant maddening and contrary man draws on key Russian sources including the many fascinating new materials which have been published about Tolstoy and his legacy since the collapse of the Soviet Union.Read More

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    In November 1910 Count Lev Tolstoy died at a remote Russian railway station attended by the world's media. He was eighty-two years old and had lived a remarkable and long life during one of the most turbulent periods of Russian history. This biography of this brilliant maddening and contrary man draws on key Russian sources.

  • Waterstones

    In November 1910, Count Lev Tolstoy died at a remote Russian railway station attended by the world's media. He was eighty-two years old and had lived a remarkable and long life during one of the most turbulent periods of Russian history. This biograp

  • 1846681405
  • 9781846681400
  • Rosamund Bartlett
  • 24 November 2011
  • Profile Books
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 560
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