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Book Synopsis Autobiography of Countess Tolstoy by : Sophie Tolstoy
Download or read book Autobiography of Countess Tolstoy written by Sophie Tolstoy and published by . This book was released on 2013-11-24 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic autobiography of Countess Tolstoy, the wife of Russian novelist and thinker Leo Tolstoy.
Book Synopsis Autobiography of Countess Tolstoy [Sophie Andreevna Tolstoy] by : Софья Андреевна Толстая
Download or read book Autobiography of Countess Tolstoy [Sophie Andreevna Tolstoy] written by Софья Андреевна Толстая and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Autobiography of Countess Tolstoy by : Sophie Andreevna Tolstoy
Download or read book Autobiography of Countess Tolstoy written by Sophie Andreevna Tolstoy and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Autobiography of Countess Tolstoy by : S. A. Tolstaia
Download or read book Autobiography of Countess Tolstoy written by S. A. Tolstaia and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Autobiography of Countess Tolstoy" by S. A. Tolstaia (translated by Leonard Woolf, S. S. Koteliansky). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Book Synopsis Sophia Tolstoy by : Alexandra Popoff
Download or read book Sophia Tolstoy written by Alexandra Popoff and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Leo Tolstoy’s wife, Sophia Tolstoy experienced both glory and condemnation during their forty-eight-year marriage. She was admired as the muse and literary assistant to one of the world’s most celebrated novelists. But when in later years Tolstoy became a towering public figure and founded a new brand of religion, she was scorned for her disagreements with him. And it is this version of Sophia—malicious, shrill, perennially at war with Tolstoy—that has gone down in the historical record. Drawing on newly available archival material, including Sophia’s unpublished memoir, Alexandra Popoff presents a dramatically different and accurate portrait of the woman and the marriage. This lively, well-researched biography demonstrates that, contrary to popular belief, Sophia was remarkably supportive of Tolstoy and was, in fact, key to his fame. Gifted and versatile, Sophia assisted Tolstoy during the writing of War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Having modeled his most memorable female characters on her, Tolstoy admired his wife’s boundless energy, which he called “the force of life.” Sophia’s letters, never before translated, illuminate the couple’s true relationship and provide insights into Tolstoy’s creative laboratory. Although long portrayed as an elitist and hysterical countess, Sophia was in reality a practical, independent-minded, generous, and talented woman who shared Tolstoy’s important values and his capacity for work. Mother of thirteen, she participated in Tolstoy’s causes and managed all business a airs. Popoff describes in haunting detail the intrusion into their marriage by Tolstoy’s religious disciple Vladimir Chertkov, who controlled Tolstoy at the end of his life and led a smear campaign against Sophia, branding her evil and mad. She is still judged by Chertkov’s false accounts, which dismissed her valuable achievements and contributions. During his later religious phase, Tolstoy renounced his property and copyright, and Sophia had to become the breadwinner. She published Tolstoy’s collected works and supported their large family. Despite the pressures of her demanding life, she realized her own talents as a writer, photographer, translator, and aspiring artist. This vigorous, engrossing biography presents in fascinating depth and detail the many ways in which Sophia Tolstoy enriched the life and work of one of the world’s most revered authors.
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Download or read book Autobiography of Countess Tolstoy written by and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-20 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRANSLATORS' NOTEThe circumstances under which this autobiography of Tolstoy's wife has just been discovered and published in Russia are explained in the preface of Vassili Spiridonov which follows. Spiridonov edited and published it in the first number of a new Russian review, Nachala. We have translated his preface in full and also the greater number of his notes, which contain much material with regard to Tolstoy which has not previously been available for English readers. Such readers may perhaps consider that some of these notes and the documentation generally are over-elaborate. But they must remember that the question of Tolstoy's "going away" and of his relations with his wife, Countess Sophie Tolstoy, and other members of his family, has roused the most passionate interest and controversy in Russia. This is partly due, no doubt, to the dramatic and psychological interest of the whole story, but is also due very largely to the fact that Tolstoy's actions were bound up with his teachings, and his numerous disciples and opponents were watching the struggle of the preacher to put his principles in practice in his own life. The whole question of the will and the going away of Tolstoy, of the difference with his wife, and of the subsequent dealings with his property, has given rise to an immense literature in Russia. As Spiridonov's preface shows, it is treated as a kind of cause celebre in which the whole of humanity is to judge between Tolstoy and his wife. The importance of this book lies in the fact that in it for the first time Countless Sophie Andreevna Tolstoy herself states her own case in full. The reader should, however, remember that it is only one side of the case.We have added ourselves a few short appendices giving some additional information with regard to some of the more important points and persons.S. S. K. L. S. W.
Book Synopsis Song Without Words by : Sofʹi︠a︡ Andreevna Tolstai︠a︡
Download or read book Song Without Words written by Sofʹi︠a︡ Andreevna Tolstai︠a︡ and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a first-ever publishing event, the remarkable photography and writings of Countess Sophia Tolstoy reveal the unfolding of her life with her famous husband--and evocatively portray a glittering world that soon would fade away. 120 photographs.
Book Synopsis Autobiography of Countess Tolstoy, Sophie Andreevna Tolstoy (1922) by : Sophie Andreevna Tolstoy
Download or read book Autobiography of Countess Tolstoy, Sophie Andreevna Tolstoy (1922) written by Sophie Andreevna Tolstoy and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.
Book Synopsis Autobiography of Countess Tolstoy, Sophie Andreevna Tolstoy (1922) by : Sophie Andreevna Tolstoy
Download or read book Autobiography of Countess Tolstoy, Sophie Andreevna Tolstoy (1922) written by Sophie Andreevna Tolstoy and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Book Synopsis Autobiography of Countess Tolstoy by : Sofʹi︠a︡ Andreevna Tolstai︠a︡
Download or read book Autobiography of Countess Tolstoy written by Sofʹi︠a︡ Andreevna Tolstai︠a︡ and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Autobiography of Countess Tolstoy Sophie Andreevna Tolstoy by : Sofʹi︠a︡ Andreevna Tolstai︠a︡
Download or read book Autobiography of Countess Tolstoy Sophie Andreevna Tolstoy written by Sofʹi︠a︡ Andreevna Tolstai︠a︡ and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lev and Sonya by : Louise Smoluchowski
Download or read book Lev and Sonya written by Louise Smoluchowski and published by Putnam Adult. This book was released on 1987 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story of the Tolstoy Marriage.
Book Synopsis The Final Struggle by : Countess Alexandra Tolstoy
Download or read book The Final Struggle written by Countess Alexandra Tolstoy and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harmony was not the leitmotif of the Tolstoys's marriage. In wedlock for forty-eight years, some of them happy, many of them turbulent, the couple had reached the nadir of mutual exasperation in 1910, the final year of Tolstoy's life. No biography could illustrate this more graphically than these diaries for that fateful year. In addition to the Countess's own diary and day book, salient extracts are also reproduced from not only from Leo Tolstoy's diary but his private diary (For Myself Alone) as well. There is more. It seems that almost everyone in the household had a sense of history and was recording their own observations of the domestic disintegration. The extensive footnotes quote liberally from, among others, Valentin Bulgakov (Tolstoy's secretary), Alexander Goldenweiser (pianist and close friend of Tolstoy), Vladimir Chertkov (Tolstoy's leading disciple, executor of his will, and the most controversial person in the book - the Countess's bête noire) and the eldest son, Sergey Tolstoy. The end is well-known: Tolstoy finally flees the family estate, Yasnaya Polyana, only to die shortly afterwards in the station-master's house at Astapovo. 'Never, never marry, my dear fellow! That's my advice: never marry till you can say to yourself that you have done all you are capable of, and until you have ceased to love the woman of your choice and have seen her plainly as she is, or else you will make a cruel an irrevocable mistake.' So says Prince Andrew to Pierre in War and Peace, but it could be the epigraph for this book. By all means see the film, The Last Station, but read this book as well.
Download or read book Sonya written by Anne Edwards and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1981 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sympathetic account of Sonya Tolstoy's struggle for independence reveals Sonya to be a forerunner of today's modern woman, showing how her intense love for Tolstoy was diminished by his refusal to see her as her own person.
Book Synopsis The Life of Tolstoy by : Aylmer Maude
Download or read book The Life of Tolstoy written by Aylmer Maude and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Love and Hatred by : William L. Shirer
Download or read book Love and Hatred written by William L. Shirer and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2007-06-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love and Hatred is a groundbreaking, brilliant, and touching work that explores the marriage of Leo Tolstoy, an extraordinary Russian writer, and his wife, Sonya. Bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William L Shirer, portrait of a long and stormy marriage that serves as a biography and historical recount of the lives of both Tolstoys.
Book Synopsis The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy by : Cathy Porter
Download or read book The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy written by Cathy Porter and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] testament to a great spirit, a woman who lived in terrifying proximity to one of the greatest writers of all time, and who understood exactly the high price she would have to pay for this privilege.” —Jay Parini, author of The Last Station Translated by Cathy Porter and with an introduction by Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing, The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy chronicles in extraordinary detail the diarist’s remarkable marriage to the legendary man of letters, Count Leo Tolstoy, author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Set against the backdrop of Russia’s turbulent history at the turn of the 20th century, The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy offers a fascinating look at a remarkable era, a complicated artist, and the extraordinary woman who stood at his side.