The Diaries Of Sofia Tolstoy

Author : Sofʹi︠a︡ Andreevna Tolstai︠a︡
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781426201738
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Song Without Words written by Sofʹi︠a︡ Andreevna Tolstai︠a︡ and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a first-ever publishing event, the remarkable photography and writings of Countess Sophia Tolstoy reveal the unfolding of her life with her famous husband--and evocatively portray a glittering world that soon would fade away. 120 photographs.

Author : Alexandra Popoff
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781416559900
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sophia Tolstoy written by Alexandra Popoff and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Leo Tolstoy’s wife, Sophia Tolstoy experienced both glory and condemnation during their forty-eight-year marriage. She was admired as the muse and literary assistant to one of the world’s most celebrated novelists. But when in later years Tolstoy became a towering public figure and founded a new brand of religion, she was scorned for her disagreements with him. And it is this version of Sophia—malicious, shrill, perennially at war with Tolstoy—that has gone down in the historical record. Drawing on newly available archival material, including Sophia’s unpublished memoir, Alexandra Popoff presents a dramatically different and accurate portrait of the woman and the marriage. This lively, well-researched biography demonstrates that, contrary to popular belief, Sophia was remarkably supportive of Tolstoy and was, in fact, key to his fame. Gifted and versatile, Sophia assisted Tolstoy during the writing of War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Having modeled his most memorable female characters on her, Tolstoy admired his wife’s boundless energy, which he called “the force of life.” Sophia’s letters, never before translated, illuminate the couple’s true relationship and provide insights into Tolstoy’s creative laboratory. Although long portrayed as an elitist and hysterical countess, Sophia was in reality a practical, independent-minded, generous, and talented woman who shared Tolstoy’s important values and his capacity for work. Mother of thirteen, she participated in Tolstoy’s causes and managed all business a airs. Popoff describes in haunting detail the intrusion into their marriage by Tolstoy’s religious disciple Vladimir Chertkov, who controlled Tolstoy at the end of his life and led a smear campaign against Sophia, branding her evil and mad. She is still judged by Chertkov’s false accounts, which dismissed her valuable achievements and contributions. During his later religious phase, Tolstoy renounced his property and copyright, and Sophia had to become the breadwinner. She published Tolstoy’s collected works and supported their large family. Despite the pressures of her demanding life, she realized her own talents as a writer, photographer, translator, and aspiring artist. This vigorous, engrossing biography presents in fascinating depth and detail the many ways in which Sophia Tolstoy enriched the life and work of one of the world’s most revered authors.

Author : Lev Nikolaevič Tolstoj
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571269044
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tolstoy's Diaries written by Lev Nikolaevič Tolstoj and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cathy Porter
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062029363
Total Pages : 645 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy written by Cathy Porter and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] testament to a great spirit, a woman who lived in terrifying proximity to one of the greatest writers of all time, and who understood exactly the high price she would have to pay for this privilege.” —Jay Parini, author of The Last Station Translated by Cathy Porter and with an introduction by Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing, The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy chronicles in extraordinary detail the diarist’s remarkable marriage to the legendary man of letters, Count Leo Tolstoy, author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Set against the backdrop of Russia’s turbulent history at the turn of the 20th century, The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy offers a fascinating look at a remarkable era, a complicated artist, and the extraordinary woman who stood at his side.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1043 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 1043 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael R. Katz
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300210396
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kreutzer Sonata Variations written by Michael R. Katz and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A work unprecedented in world literature, this unique volume contains a new translation of Lev Tolstoy’s controversial novella The Kreutzer Sonata, which was initially banned by Russian censors. In addition, available to English readers for the first time is a fascinating and previously neglected constellation of counterstories written by the author’s wife and son in direct response to Tolstoy’s provocative tale, each a passionate attempt to undo the message of the original work. These radically conflicting tales, accompanied by excerpts from family letters, diaries, notes, and memoirs, provide readers with a vivid and highly revealing case study of the powerful disputes concerning sexuality and gender roles that erupted within the cultural context of late-nineteenth-century Russian, as well as European, society.

Author : Sofʹi︠a︡ Andreevna Tolstai︠a︡
Publisher : Jonathan Cape
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1138 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diaries of Sofia Tolstaya written by Sofʹi︠a︡ Andreevna Tolstai︠a︡ and published by Jonathan Cape. This book was released on 1985 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tolstoy's Diaries: 1895-1910 written by graf Leo Tolstoy and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Софья Андреевна Толстая
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 0776619225
Total Pages : 1251 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Life written by Софья Андреевна Толстая and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2011-02-04 with total page 1251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One hundred years after his death in 1910. Lev Nikolaevich Leo Tolstoy continues to be regarded as one of the world's greatest writers. Historically, little attention has been paid to his wife, Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya. Acting in the capacity of literary assistant, translator, transcriber and editor, she played an important role in the development of her husband's career. Her memoirs which she entitled My Life - lay dormant for almost a century. Now the book's first-time-ever appearance in Russia is complemented by an unabridged and annotated English translation." "Tolstaya paints an intimate and honest portrait of her husband's character, setting forth new details about his life to which she alone was privy. She describes her extensive correspondence with many prominent figures in Russian and Western society, making My Life a unique account of late-19th- and early-20th-century Russia, with its cast of characters ranging from peasants to the Tsar himself. Her engaging narrative reveals not only her significant contributions to her husband's work but also her considerable talent as an author in her own right."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Sofia Tolstoy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780714548340
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy written by Sofia Tolstoy and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Sofia Behrs married Count Leo Tolstoy, the author of ""War and Peace"", husband and wife regularly exchanged diaries covering the years from 1862 to 1910. This edition contains a foreword by Doris Lessing.