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Hace 3 días · Tatiana Tolstaya ‘The Slynx’ (2000) Kristina Kormilitsyna/Sputnik; NYRB Classics. Granddaughter of famous writer Alexei Tolstoy wrote her first (and only) novel in 1986 after the Chernobyl ...
- What happened to Leo Tolstoy’s family after the 1917 Revolution
The author of ‘War and Peace’ died seven years before the...
- What happened to Leo Tolstoy’s family after the 1917 Revolution
Hace 2 días · Leo Tolstoy's last surviving grandchild, Countess Tatiana Tolstoy-Paus, died in 2007 at Herresta manor in Sweden, which is owned by Tolstoy's descendants. Swedish writer Daria Paus and jazz singer Viktoria Tolstoy are among Leo Tolstoy's Swedish descendants.
The author of ‘War and Peace’ died seven years before the turning point in Russian history. But, at heart, he was an anarchist and he didn’t like tsarist power or any other, for that matter. But,...
Hace 1 día · He was a frequent guest in several salons in Saint Petersburg and met many famous people, including Countess Sophia Tolstaya, Yakov Polonsky, Sergei Witte, Alexey Suvorin, Anton Rubinstein and Ilya Repin.
Hace 1 día · Tatyana Tolstaya began to occupy a prominent role following the publication of her novel The Slynx (2000), a satire about a disastrous hypothetical future for Moscow. Some critics considered the decade the “twilight period in Russian literature,” because of the departure from traditional psychological novels about contemporary life in ...
Hace 4 días · Dr. Alex Cross, a forensic psychologist and detective from Washington D.C., is devastated to learn that his niece, Naomi, a college student in Durham, North Carolina, has been missing for four days. Despite his family’s anxiety, Cross travels to Durham to investigate, determined to find her.
Hace 3 días · Literary scholars tend to believe that many 20th-century dystopias are inspired by Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1864 novel ‘Notes from Underground’ and its anti-hero with his distorted ideas about social order and morality.
