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Count Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy (Russian: Фёдор Петро́вич Толстой; 21 February 1783 – 25 April 1873) was a Russian artist who served as Vice-President of the Imperial Academy of Arts for forty years (1828–1868). His works – wax-reliefs, watercolours, medallions, and silhouettes – are distinguished by a cool ...
The Tolstoys were a well-known family of old Russian nobility who traced their ancestry to a mythical [14] nobleman named Indris described by Pyotr Tolstoy as arriving "from Nemec, from the lands of Caesar" to Chernigov in 1353 along with his two sons Litvinos (or Litvonis) and Zimonten (or Zigmont) and a druzhina of 3000 people.
Aylmer Maude (28 March 1858 – 25 August 1938) and Louise Maude (1855–1939) were English translators of Leo Tolstoy's works, and Aylmer Maude also wrote his friend Tolstoy's biography, The Life of Tolstoy. After living many years in Russia the Maudes spent the rest of their lives in England translating Tolstoy's writing and promoting public ...
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Painting of Anna Ivanovna Tolstoy 1796 by Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun. National Gallery of Canada. Countess Anna Ivanovna Tolstaya, née Princess Baryatinskaya (Анна Ивановна Толстая; December 5, 1774 - April 12, 1825) was the sister of prince Ivan Baryatinsky, wife of Marshal Nikolai Alexandrovich Tolstoy (1765–1816), a close friend of the Empress Elizabeth ...
Tolstoy cites the time, effort, public funds, and public respect spent on art and artists [2] as well as the imprecision of general opinions on art [3] as reason for writing the book. In his words, "it is difficult to say what is meant by art, and especially what is good, useful art, art for the sake of which we might condone such sacrifices as ...
Leo Tolstoy Archive, at RevoltLib.com; Leo Tolstoy Archive, at Marxists.org; Leo Tolstoy Archive, at TheAnarchistLibrary.org; Works by Leo Tolstoy bibliography in eBook form at Standard Ebooks; A comprehensive anthology of Tolstoy's short fiction at Standard Ebooks; Online Books Page — free, public-domain books and articles by Tolstoy ...
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