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Tolstoy had written several books ( Victims of Yalta in 1977, Stalin's Secret War in 1981, The Minister and the Massacres in 1986 ) about the alleged complicity of British politicians and officers with Joseph Stalin's forces in the murder of White Russian exiles from Soviet Rule, Cossacks, Croatian para-military and civilian fugitives from Tito, as well as 11, 000 Slovenian anticommunist fighters.
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Soldiers before this time had written treatises on various military subjects, but none had undertaken a great philosophical examination of war on the scale of those written by Clausewitz and Leo Tolstoy, both of which were inspired by the events of the Napoleonic Era.
After having spoken to Maxim Rudometkin, Tolstoy found no basis for his life imprisonment, and so by favor of the Grand Duke, had him reassigned closer to his home at the Suzdal Monastery prison where he remained for 9 years.
The political economy of struggle was criticised as a British stereotype by Karl Marx and by Leo Tolstoy, who had the character Levin in his novel Anna Karenina voice sharp criticism of the morality of Darwin's views.
After the war we retired to Wales ( I say we because my wife and I had driven ambulances and served in intelligence together ) where we lived for a while in a high Welsh-speaking valley ..." which confirms in first person at least the intelligence connection, as well as introducing his wife Mary ( Wicksteed ) Tolstoy as a co-worker and fellow intelligence operative.
Michael Wynne-Parker had been Principal Secretary from the late 1970s, and following the Marquess of Bristol's death also became the league's Acting Chancellor until 1987 when Count Nikolai Tolstoy was appointed to that position.
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia said of Scriabin that, " No composer has had more scorn heaped or greater love bestowed ..." Leo Tolstoy once described Scriabin's music as " a sincere expression of genius.
Then, when his department store ordered advance copies of the newly translated novel The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy, the deadline had been missed and only the regular discount was offered.
" Before even a line of Kafka's most famous work had been made public, Brod had already praised him as " the greatest poet of our time ", ranking with Goethe or Tolstoy.
As he had no male issue, his estates passed to the Tolstoy family ( one of his five daughters, Praskovia, had married Matvei Feodorovich Tolstoy ).
The influence of Theodore Dreiser and the Russians ( Chekhov, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy ) were discounted by the author, the former for stylistic reasons, the latter because he had apparently not read them prior to writing his book.
Tolstoy made a lasting impression on Krupskaya ; it was said that she had “ a special contempt for stylish clothes and comfort .” She was always modest in dress, as were her furnishings in her home and office.
Constantin Stanislavski, the Russian theatre practitioner, had wanted to stage the play in 1895 ; he had persuaded Tolstoy to rewrite act four along lines that Stanislavski had suggested, but the production did not materialise.
Actor Jacob Adler had a New York hit in 1904 with his own Yiddish translation — the first successful production of a Tolstoy play in the United States.
Tolstoy offers an example of this: a boy that has experienced fear after an encounter with a wolf later relates that experience, infecting the hearers and compelling them to feel the same fear that he had experienced — that is a perfect example of a work of art.
James Joyce noted that, " Tolstoy admired him but he thought that he had little artistic accomplishment or mind.
Their struggle for purity of the Russian language had something in common with ascetic views of Leo Tolstoy.
She later said " I had a loopy idea that I could work with my hands during the day and in the evening come home and write novels and poetry, and be Tolstoy ...
Mizoguchi's early works had been exploratory, mainly genre works, remakes of German Expressionism and adaptions of Eugene O ' Neill and Leo Tolstoy.
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Other authors of the Gogol's era included Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoevsky ( The Living Corpse, written 1838, published 1844, The Ghost, The Sylphide, and other stories ), Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy ( The Family of the Vourdalak, 1839, and The Vampire, 1841 ), Mikhail Zagoskin ( Unexpected Guests ), Józef Sękowski / Osip Senkovsky ( Antar ), Yevgeny Baratynsky ( The Ring ).
* Aelita ( 1923 ): Aelita, Queen of Mars, novel written by Russian writer Alexey Tolstoy.
It is the only piece of verse Tolstoy is known to have written.
In the Soviet era Yuri Shaporin produced an opera entitled Dekabristi ( The Decembrists ), about the revolt, with the libretto written by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy.
Leo Tolstoy spent summers there and Anton Chekhov in 1898 bought a house ( the White Dacha ) here, where he lived till 1902 ; Yalta is the setting for Chekhov's short story, " The Lady with the Dog ", and such prominent plays as The Three Sisters were written in Yalta.
" Gilbert Murray praised the book in three separate letters to the author, comparing Wells to Leo Tolstoy .." Biographer Vincent Brome has written that " Tono-Bungay came fresh and vivid to men and women of Wells ' generation.
It was written in 1879 to 1880, when Tolstoy was of late-middle age.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (, Smert ' Ivana Ilyicha ), first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s.
* The Kreutzer Sonata adapted from the Yiddish play written by Jacob Gordin by Langdon Mitchell, based on a story by Leo Tolstoy.
Although written around 1900, it was only published shortly after his death — Tolstoy had never considered the work finished.
* Sebastopol Sketches, cycle of three historical fiction short stories written by Leo Tolstoy
Resurrection (, Voskreseniye ), first published in 1899, was the last novel written by Leo Tolstoy.
The scenes described in the book are reminiscent of masterpieces written by Leo Tolstoy and Honoré de Balzac.
Father Sergius (, ) is a short story written by Leo Tolstoy in 1890 and first published in 1898.
The work won considerable acclaim, including biography of the year in ' Record Collector ', in which it was described as " One of the best biographies ever written ... Expansive enough to rival War And Peace, Johnny Rogan ’ s definitive Byrds biography comes close to matching the emotional, if not geographical, range of Tolstoy ’ s epic novel.
Figes has also written essays on various Russian cultural figures, including Leo Tolstoy, Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev
Family Happiness ( Schast ' ye ) is an 1859 novella written by Leo Tolstoy, first published in The Russian Messenger.
A Letter to a Hindu ( also known as A Letter to a Hindoo ) was a letter written by Leo Tolstoy to Tarak Nath Das in 1908.
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Nikolai Tolstoy also possesses an extensive collection of O ' Brian manuscript material, including the second half of Hussein, several short stories, much of the reportedly " lost " book on Bestiaries, letters, diaries, journals, notes, poems, book reviews, and several unpublished short stories ( Tolstoy, various pages ).
But again, Jacob retreated from the growing interest and fame and took nine months off, spending most of her time reading Tolstoy, Balzac, Singer, and several autobiographies.
In the years that followed, he took an interest in several other cultural exchanges, including trips to the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, as well as translations of Russian writers Maxim Gorky and Leo Tolstoy.
" By that, Tolstoy meant that for a marriage to be happy, it had to succeed in several key aspects.
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Tolkien, by science fiction writers like Philip K. Dick, by central figures of Western literature like Leo Tolstoy, Virgil and The Brontë sisters, and including feminist writers like Virginia Woolf, by children's literature like Alice in Wonderland, The Wind in the Willows and The Jungle Book, by Norse mythology, and by books from the Eastern tradition such as the Tao Te Ching.
He began to read large numbers of books, but counted only a handful as having an impression on him later in life, primarily works by Gorky, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky.
; Leo Tolstoy: Leo Tolstoy ( 1828 – 1910 ) wrote extensively on his anarchist principles, which he arrived at via his Christian faith, in his books The Kingdom of God is Within You, What I Believe ( aka My Religion ), The Law of Love and the Law of Violence, and Christianity and Patriotism which criticised government and the Church in general.
His other books include St. Petersburg: A Cultural History ( 1995 ), Shostakovich and Stalin: The Extraordinary Relationship Between the Great Composer and the Brutal Dictator ( 2004 ), The Magical Chorus: A History of Russian Culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn ( 2008 ), and Romanov Riches: Russian Writers and Artists Under the Tsars ( 2011 ).
He published more than 100 books, novels and biographies, among them those of Anton Chekhov, Catherine the Great, Rasputin, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ivan the Terrible and Leo Tolstoy.
His books on Leo Tolstoy ( Whitbread Award for best biography of 1988 ), C. S. Lewis, Hilaire Belloc, and Jesus Christ are all simultaneously sympathetic to and critical of religious belief.
Many publishers printed their own editions because they assumed that Tolstoy had given up all copyrights as he had done with previous books.
Baumann was also an accomplished translator, having translated numerous books from Russian to German, including works by Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Anna Akhmatova and others.
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