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Nov 5, 2013 · Leo Tolstoy died from pneumonia, aged eighty-two, at the railway station of Astapovo, a remote Russian village, on November 7, 1910. He had left his family home on October 28, in the middle of...
Apr 7, 2020 · A framed photograph shows a glimpse of the man. Sergei Pugachev is pictured on Tolstoy's left, with deep-set green eyes, a trimmed moustache and beard.
Tolstoy is considered one of the giants of Russian literature; his works include the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina and novellas such as Hadji Murad and The Death of Ivan Ilyich. Tolstoy's earliest works, the autobiographical novels Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth (1852–1856), tell of a rich landowner's son and his slow realization of ...
Tolstoy Is Dead; Long Fight Over By THE NEW YORK TIMES. ASTAPOVA, Sunday, Nov. 20.--Count Tolstoy died at 6:05 this morning. The Countess Tolstoy was admitted to the sickroom at 5:50. Tolstoy...
Home. Episodes. Clips. Features. Ten Things You Didn't Know About Tolstoy. Leo Tolstoy about a year before his death. Image courtesy of Mary Evans Picture Library. 1. Tolstoy was a Count....
Count Sergei Lvovich Tolstoy (Russian: Сергей Львович Толстой; 10 July 1863, Yasnaya Polyana – 23 December 1947, Moscow) was a composer and ethnomusicologist who was among the first Europeans to make an in-depth study of the music of India.
Nov 18, 2020 · Marking the death of Leo Tolstoy 110 years ago on November 20, we present photos from the life of one of Russia's greatest writers.
