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Oral history interview with Alexandra Tolstoy 1966 on the subject of Soviet Union History - Revolution, 1917–1921; Bio at Tolstoy Foundation web site; Picture of Alexandra Tolstoy in Valley Cottage [dead link ] The human spirit is free (in Russian), Alexandra Tolstaya's appearances by Radio Svoboda's microphone. Introduction by Ivan ...
Tolstoy is the daughter of Count Nikolai Tolstoy and Georgina Brown. She was born in Poole, Dorset. [2] She is the older sister of Xenia Sackville, Lady Buckhurst. Tolstoy was educated at Downe House, [2] and then studied for a Master of Arts degree in Russian at the University of Edinburgh, during the course of which she spent a year in Russia.
In 1889, Leo Tolstoy published his book The Kreutzer Sonata. [3] The book advocated for sexual abstinence. Its narrator murders his wife in a fit of jealousy. [15] Although quickly banned from publication by censorship, the novel had been assumed in the Russian society to be describing the unhappy marriage of Leo Tolstoy and Tolstaya, which greatly offended Tolstaya. [16]
Sofya Alexandrovna "Sonya" (Russian: Софья Александровна "Соня"; French: Sophie) is a character in Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel War and Peace, and in Sergey Prokofiev's 1955 opera War and Peace and Dave Malloy's 2012 musical Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 based on it. She is the orphaned niece of Count and Countess ...
Anna Karenina (Russian: Анна Каренина, IPA: [ˈanːə kɐˈrʲenʲɪnə]) [1] is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in book form in 1878. Tolstoy called it his first true novel. [2]
Countess Natalya "Natasha" Ilyinichna Rostova (/ iː lj iː ˈ n iː tʃ. n ɑː ˈ r oʊ. s t oʊ ˈ v ɑː /; Russian: Наталья "Наташа" Ильинична Ростова, named Natasha Rostov in the Rosemary Edmonds version; born 1792, according to the book) is a central fictional character in Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel War and Peace.
The first documented members of the Tolstoy family also lived in the 17th century. House of Durnovo is a side branch of the Tolstoy family. Pyotr Tolstoy is the founder of the titled branch of the family; he was granted the title of count by Peter the Great. [6] [7] The untitled branch of the same stem is descended from Ivan Andreevich Tolstoy.
Th children's book, Papa Panov's Special Day, by Mig Holder, is a retelling of the story. It was adapted into "Pratiksha" an episode from the Indian television series, Katha Sagar (1986). The Christmas Guest, a holiday poem written and recorded by Grandpa Jones and later recorded by Johnny Cash and Reba McEntire , is based on this story.