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Mar 22, 2018 · A person, 50 years old, is in full blown mid-life crisis. Even with fame, fortune, and a loving family, life is meaningless. This was Leo Tolstoy. Having written War and Peace and Anna Karenina, he was one of the most celebrated authors in the history of mankind.
Family Happiness (pre-reform Russian: Семейное счастіе; post-reform Russian: Семейное счастие, romanized: Seméynoye schástiye) is an 1859 novella written by Leo Tolstoy, first published in The Russian Messenger.
Jan 5, 2015 · Tolstoy tells us that he wrote to make money, to take care of his family, and to distract himself from questions about meaning. But later—when seized with questions about the meaning of life and death—he came to regard his literary work as worthless.
Dec 26, 2019 · If reason did not exist there would be for me no life. How can reason deny life when it is the creator of life? Or to put it the other way: were there no life, my reason would not exist; therefore reason is life’s son.
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There are currently more than 200 descendants of Leo Tolstoy living in different countries. Quite a few of them continue their famous ancestor’s work, preserve his legacy and study his many writings. One of them is Vladimir Tolstoy (b.1962), who is Leo Tolstoy’s great-grandson. During the 1990s, he wrote several articles to notify the public about ...
In 2014 Vladimir Tolstoy was among organizers for All Tolstoy in a Single Clickproject, which was of the major literary events of the year. The project involved digitizing the complete works of Leo Tolstoy - comprising 90 volumes, including the writer’s letters and diaries – to make them available online free of charge. Several thousand volunteers ...
Yet another great-grandson of the writer, Fyokla's second cousin Pyotr Tolstoy, is also a TV celebrity: he presented Russia's main evening newscast, Vremya, which airs on Channel One, from 2005-2012, and also hosted his own program, Tolstoy: Sunday. Pyotr was a member of the Civic Chamber, a government body charged with coordinating the interests o...
Another famous member of the Tolstoy family is Tatyana Tolstaya, granddaughter of the famous Soviet author Alexey Tolstoy, a distant relative of Leo. Even though she is not a direct descendant of Leo Tolstoy, she is a talented author in her own right. Her most famous work is the post-apocalyptic novel The Slynx. Just like some of her relatives, Tat...
Apr 23, 2024 · The man who holds the divine theory of life recognizes life not in his own individuality, and not in societies of individualities (in the family, the clan, the nation, the tribe, or the government), but in the eternal undying source of life—in God; and to fulfill the will of God he is ready to sacrifice his individual and family and social ...
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Sep 9, 2014 · Early Life. On September 9, 1828, writer Leo Tolstoy was born at his family's estate, Yasnaya Polyana, in the Tula Province of Russia. He was the youngest of four boys. When Tolstoy's...
