Living with a Genius: Leo Tolstoy's Wife and Daughters
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Living with a Genius: Leo Tolstoy's Wife and Daughters
19.99 €
The personality of Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, a writer, thinker, public figure, arouses the most lively interest. What was Tolstoy like in everyday life? How was his relationship with close people? What was the response to his spiritual quest in the family circle?
“Life with a Genius: The Wife and Daughters of Leo Tolstoy” is a unique edition: under one cover two books, previously prepared in the “ABC” and have managed to become a bibliographic rarity, are combined. Their author is Nadezhda Gennadyevna Mikhnovets, a famous literary critic, doctor of philological sciences, a researcher of Russian literature of the XIX century.
The first book – “Love and Rebellion” – is built on the diary entries of Sophia Andreevna in 1910, which are accompanied by the testimony of other family members and people close to the writer: published together, these documents cover the complex and dramatic events of the last months of Tolstoy’s life, preceding his departure from Yasnaya Polyana. The second, “Three Daughters of Leo Tolstoy”, traces the fates of Tatiana, Maria and Alexandra Tolstoy; it opens previously unknown pages of their biographies, relating not only to life in his father’s home, but also to the era of stormy changes that began shortly after the death of L. N. Tolstoy.
Extensive factual material, a wide range of sources, including archival, which served as the basis for a fascinating story-research, as well as photographs - all this allows you to feel the atmosphere of Yasnopolyansk life, the center of which was Lev Nikolaevich, and makes the publication a real gift for connoisseurs and fans of domestic literature.
“Life with a Genius: The Wife and Daughters of Leo Tolstoy” is a unique edition: under one cover two books, previously prepared in the “ABC” and have managed to become a bibliographic rarity, are combined. Their author is Nadezhda Gennadyevna Mikhnovets, a famous literary critic, doctor of philological sciences, a researcher of Russian literature of the XIX century.
The first book – “Love and Rebellion” – is built on the diary entries of Sophia Andreevna in 1910, which are accompanied by the testimony of other family members and people close to the writer: published together, these documents cover the complex and dramatic events of the last months of Tolstoy’s life, preceding his departure from Yasnaya Polyana. The second, “Three Daughters of Leo Tolstoy”, traces the fates of Tatiana, Maria and Alexandra Tolstoy; it opens previously unknown pages of their biographies, relating not only to life in his father’s home, but also to the era of stormy changes that began shortly after the death of L. N. Tolstoy.
Extensive factual material, a wide range of sources, including archival, which served as the basis for a fascinating story-research, as well as photographs - all this allows you to feel the atmosphere of Yasnopolyansk life, the center of which was Lev Nikolaevich, and makes the publication a real gift for connoisseurs and fans of domestic literature.
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