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Confession (pre-reform Russian: Исповѣдь; post-reform Russian: Исповедь, romanized: Íspovedʹ), or My Confession, is a short work on the subject of melancholia, philosophy and religion by the Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy. It was written in 1879 to 1880, when Tolstoy was in his early fifties.
Chertkov was born in 1854 in St. Petersburg, Russia into a wealthy and aristocratic family.His mother (to whom he felt especially close), Elizaveta Ivanovna, born Countess Chernysheva-Kruglikova, was known among her circle in St. Petersburg society for her beauty, intellect, authoritativeness and tact.
Introduction: A Confession (1879–1880) [2] Vol. 1: A Criticism of Dogmatic Theology (1880–1882) Vol. 2: The Four Gospels Harmonized and Translated (1880–1882) The Gospel in Brief (Containing only the summaries and translations from Vol. 2) (1882) Vol. 3: What I Believe (aka My Religion) (1884) What Shall We Do Then? (1886) On Life (1887) [3]
Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1882–1945), novelist and science fiction writer, The Garin Death Ray; Ilya Tolstoy (1866–1933), author of a memoir about his father Leo Tolstoy; Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist and public figure, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Resurrection ...
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.
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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 nove
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