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1 day ago · Leo Tolstoy at age 20, c. 1848. Tolstoy was born at Yasnaya Polyana, a family estate 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) southwest of Tula, and 200 kilometres (120 mi) south of Moscow. He was the fourth of five children of Count Nikolai Ilyich Tolstoy (1794–1837), a veteran of the Patriotic War of 1812, and Princess Mariya Tolstaya (née Volkonskaya; 1790 ...
- Leo Tolstoy Bibliography
Prose fiction Novels. The Autobiographical Trilogy Childhood...
- War and Peace
War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, romanized: Voyna i mir;...
- Tolstoy Family
The House of Tolstoy, or Tolstoi (Russian: Толстой), is a...
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Sources. Липецкий областной Совет депутатов. Закон №382-ОЗ...
- Sergei Tolstoy
Count Sergei Lvovich Tolstoy (Russian: Сергей Львович...
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Countess Alexandra Tolstoy interview on Kasenkina Case at...
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Resurrection (pre-reform Russian: Воскресеніе; post-reform...
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Georgism, also called in modern times Geoism, and known...
- Leo Tolstoy Bibliography
2 days ago · Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo [1] ( French: [viktɔʁ maʁi yɡo] ⓘ; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885), sometimes nicknamed the Ocean Man, was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. His most famous works are the novels The Hunchback of ...
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2 days ago · In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include oral literature, also known as orature [3] much of which has been transcribed. [4] [5] Literature is a method of recording, preserving, and transmitting knowledge and entertainment, and can also have a social, psychological, spiritual, or political role.
Apr 24, 2024 · April 9, 1917, Arras, France (aged 39) Edward Thomas (born March 3, 1878, Lambeth, London, Eng.—died April 9, 1917, Arras, France) was an English writer who turned to poetry only after a long career spent producing nature studies and critical works on such 19th-century writers as Richard Jefferies, George Borrow, Algernon Charles Swinburne ...
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Apr 17, 2024 · Vera Ivanovna Zasulich (born July 27 [Aug. 8, New Style], 1849, Mikhaylovka, Russia—died May 8, 1919, Petrograd [now St. Petersburg]) was a Russian revolutionary who shot and wounded General Fyodor F. Trepov, the governor of St. Petersburg, and who was acquitted by the jury in a much-publicized trial (1878). The daughter of a nobleman ...
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May 2, 2024 · Eighteenth-Century Fiction (Chadwyck-Healey) A collection of 96 complete works of English prose from the period 1700–1780 by writers from the British Isles. Key figures covered include Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, Tobias Smollett, Laurence Sterne and Jonathan Swift. In addition to a scanned version of Sterne ...
Apr 23, 2024 · Sergio Osmeña (born Sept. 9, 1878, Cebu City, Phil.—died Oct. 19, 1961, Manila) was a Filipino statesman, founder of the Nationalist Party (Partido Nacionalista) and president of the Philippines from 1944 to 1946. Sergio Osmeña. Osmeña received a law degree from the University of Santo Tomás, Manila, in 1903.
