Tolstoy a Russian life
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 subjec...
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Boston [Mass.] :
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2011.
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| Edition: | 1st U.S. ed. |
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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.
