Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gorky,

We once saw Alexei Tolstoy walking in the woods.

You're Anna Karenina.

A poetic image for a story on Tolstoy, by Sam Abell.

I found Dostoyevsky, Gogol, Tolstoy

Tolstoy became consumed with that stick, but he never found it.

But Tolstoy, Darwin, Jefferson, Lincoln, they had the same doubts.

Is it possible, all these years later, to say Tolstoy was right?

At the time, he read the writings of Russian author Leo Tolstoy and became fan of Tolstoyanism.

Tolstoy is a town in Potter County, South Dakota, United States.

From Alexander Pushkin s poems to Leo Tolstoy s novels, French influence pervades the commanding heights of Russian culture.

When Leo Tolstoy was five years old, his brother Nikolay came to him and said he had engraved the secret to universal happiness on a little green stick, which he had hidden in a ravine on the family's estate in Russia.

Education According to Nikolai Tolstoy, As with so many Russian children at that time, little Alexei picked up his earliest education at home.

Happy transitions, to paraphrase Tolstoy, are all alike but every unhappy transition is unhappy in its own way.

LJ blogger Residents of Perlovka introduced an exhibit that will be on display until September, beginning by quoting Tolstoy's 'War and Peace'

In a way, just like Tolstoy's statement about every unhappy marriage being different, every collapsed or endangered society is different they all have different details.

The pacifist Leo Tolstoy, in his novel War and Peace , regarded this pruning and tending of war as cynical.

On the other hand, Tolstoy justified the unrestrained and unregulated eruption of public anger and the furious slaying of retreating French soldiers by Russian peasants.

When Leo Tolstoy was five years old, his brother Nikolay came to him and said he had engraved the secret to universal happiness on a little green stick, which he had hidden in a ravine on the family's estate in Russia.

Language Although Tolstoy wrote most of the book, including all the narration, in Russian, significant portions of dialogue (including its opening paragraph) are written in French and characters often switch between the two languages.