Etiket: Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy, “War and Peace” and the mirror of the revolution
In 1864, Tolstoy, thirty-six years old, happily married and, like all Russians, a lover of horses and hunting parties, in one of them he breaks his arm and must resign…
The new book by the man who calls Tolstoy a talker contains a remarkable amount of talk
Reading is more fun than real life because when reading you can skip the parts you don’t feel like. The war, for example, in Tolstoy’s War and Peace (I can’t…
Tolstoy failed to win votes for election as PACE Vice Speaker
Petr Tolstoy (Photo: Global Look Press) The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) rejected the candidacy of the head of the Russian delegation and Deputy Chairman of the…