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  2. What Is Art? - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Theory of art - Wikipedia

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    In chapter fifteen of What Is Art?, Tolstoy says that some feelings are good, but others are bad, and so art is only valuable when it generates empathy or shared feeling for good feelings. For example, Tolstoy asserts that empathy for decadent members of the ruling class makes society worse, rather than better.

  4. Aelita (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Aelita (Russian: Аэлита) also known as Aelita, or The Decline of Mars is a 1923 science fiction novel by Russian author Aleksey Tolstoy.. In 1935–1938 the author considerably reworked it into a novel suitable for children and young adults, published in 1938 by Detizdat, "School Library" series.

  5. Leo Tolstoy bibliography - Wikipedia

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    Most children's stories (such as "A Prisoner in the Caucuses") are contained in the ABC and New ABC books shown in the Pedagogical Works section. Below are the stories not published in the ABC and New ABC books. Stories for Lubki picture books (1885) "Evil Allures, But Good Endures" (lit. "Enemy is Crafty, but God is Strong") ("Вражье ...

  6. Leo Tolstoy - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Today's Wordle Hint, Answer for #1255 on Monday, November 25 ...

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    Today's Wordle Answer for #1255 on Monday, November 25, 2024. Today's Wordle answer on Monday, November 25, 2024, is BROWN. How'd you do? Next: Catch up on other Wordle answers from this week.

  8. The Road to Calvary - Wikipedia

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    The Road to Calvary (Russian: Хождение по мукам, romanized: Khozhdeniye po mukam, lit. 'Walking Through Torments'), also translated as Ordeal, is a trilogy of novels by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, tracing the fate of the Russian intelligentsia on the eve of, during, and after the revolution of 1917.

  9. Police dog injured as armed officers target van

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    A police dog has been injured in an incident that saw armed officers track a van suspected of carrying weapons. West Midlands Police said the van was spotted by officers on Saturday morning using ...