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Tolstoy : a Russian life / Rosamund Bartlett.

Bartlett, Rosamund.
2011
PG3385 .B37 2011 (Mapit)
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Title
Tolstoy : a Russian life / Rosamund Bartlett.
Author
Bartlett, Rosamund.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
ISBN
9780151014385
0151014388
Published
Boston [Mass.] : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.
Language
English
Description
xv, 544 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical tables, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Call Number
PG3385 .B37 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
891.73/3 B
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.
Note
Originally published: London : Profile, 2010.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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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