Both Tolstoy’s parents belonged to ancient Russian aristocratic families. His grandfather on his mother’s side, Prince Nikolai Volkonsky, was a member of the court of Catherine the Great and ...

It turns out that there were vampires among the 19th century nobility in Russia. Only they had a different name.

My mother used to rant about how the middle-aged Leo Tolstoy became one of the most boring writers in the world, having ...

Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. American Journal of Sociology Vol. 31, No. 5, Mar., 1926 Tolstoy's Theory of Social Reform. I This ...

The park with its avenues of lindens, which were in full bloom during our visit, the ponds and lawns and forest, must have been superb in the time of his grandfather, and even of his mother ...

"This novel is about a family of children whose father died, and then their mother dies ... "My favorite book is War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy because it's why I wanted to become an actor.

When the time came for the announcement of the first Prize in 1901, it was commonly thought that Count Leo Tolstoy would be chosen. Actually he had not been even nominated. The first name on the ...

Tolstoy had a privileged childhood; her father was a distant relative of the author Leo Tolstoy and Alexandra had attended an elite boarding school before working as a broker in the city.

There's a reason nature has inspired scores of poems, songs, and beautiful words—it's pretty darn awe-inspiring. Equal parts powerful and fragile, nature reminds us that we're just a small part of a ...

Lovers of 19 th-century Russian literature have likely never heard the name Avdotya Panaeva, even though she traveled in the same literary circles as Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Born in 1819 and raised in ...

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