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Two Old Men" ("Два старика") is a short story by Leo Tolstoy written in 1885. It is a religious piece that was translated to English by Leo Wiener in 1904. [ 1 ] According to Christianity Today , it is the story of Efim and Elisha, two neighbors who decide to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem before dying, [ 2 ] "but one gets sidetracked ...
Twenty-Three Tales is a popular compilation of short stories by Leo Tolstoy. According to its publisher, Oxford University Press, the collection is about contemporary classes in Russia during Tolstoy's time, written in a brief, morality-tale style. [1] It was translated into English by Louise Maude and Aylmer Maude.
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.
Two Old Men, also known as Two Monks or An Old Man and a Monk (Spanish: Dos viejos, Dos frailes, or Un viejo y un fraile), are names given to one of the 14 Black ...
This work was written in the same work as other pieces like Two Hussars and A Russian Proprietor. [2] Editors at Rowman & Littlefield suggested that an Old Acquintance is a story of a well-born man who disgraces himself and becomes declassed. [3] In 2014, the story was listed as #5 in the top 20 short stories of Tolstoy by Midwest Book Review. [4]
Leo Tolstoy in his later years; early-20th century References and footnotes This is a list of works by Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910), including his novels, novellas, short stories, fables and parables, plays, and nonfiction.
Two Hussars" ("Два гусара" ["Dva gusara"]) is a novella by Leo Tolstoy published in 1856, and translated into English by Nathan Haskell Dole. This is a novel in which one generation struggles against an earlier generation, or Tolstoy's generation is in struggle against that of his fathers. [ 1 ]
Inside, two old men are telling stories to pass the time. They give very short, blunt answers to the narrator's suggestion that they all might freeze to death if the horses give out: “To be sure, we may.” After driving a while longer, the men in the sledge begin arguing about whether what they see on the horizon is an encampment.