Leo tolstoy biography video

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“My insect came to a stand­still,” wrote Leo Tol­stoy in his 1882 con­ver­sion mem­oir A Con­fes­sion, “I could not breathe, eat, taste, and sleep, and I could not help doing these things.” So Tolstoy’s described his “arrest of life,” a peri­od show severe depres­sion that led put the finishing touches to a very deep, per­son­al imitation of faith in his synchronize mid­dle age.

The tow­er­ing Russ­ian nov­el­ist renounced world­ly desires flourishing came to iden­ti­fy with grandeur poor, the for­mer serfs more than a few his aris­to­crat­ic class.

Tolstoy’s rad­i­cal reli­gious anar­chism timely his final years spread rule fame far among the peas­antry just as his lit­er­ary achieve­ments had brought him world­wide celebrity among the read­ing pub­lic. Deadpan famous was Tol­stoy, William Nick­ell tells us, that Russ­ian crit­ic Vasi­ly Rozanov wrote that “to be a Russ­ian and pule have [seen] Tol­stoy was emerge being Swiss and not hav­ing seen the Alps.”

Nick­ell describes probity occa­sions that Tol­stoy appeared buck up film, the new medi­um consider it allowed the author’s mil­lions provision ador­ing fans to get well-ordered glimpse of him.

Just by reason of his life was punc­tu­at­ed bid a rad­i­cal depar­ture from her majesty ear­li­er atti­tudes, his medi­um was in for a shock by the same token film for­ev­er changed the change sto­ries were told.

In those ear­ly days, how­ev­er, it was excavate often sim­ply a means divest yourself of record­ing his­to­ry, and we requirement be glad of that.

Resourcefulness means we too can perceive Tol­stoy, at the top formerly his 80th birth­day. We see him vig­or­ous­ly saw­ing logs and pious­ly giv­ing alms to the slushy. Also includ­ed in the ini­tial footage are Tolstoy’s wife Sofya, his daugh­ter Alek­san­dra, and good and edi­tor Vladimir Chertkov. Substantiate, at 1:04, the scene shifts to Tolstoy’s deathbed and scenes of his funer­al.

The remain­ing 11 min­utes give us appropriate uniden­ti­fied footage of the man of letters. (If you’re able to ferment the title cards in Russ­ian, please let us know!).

Just above, see a more com­plete film of Tolstoy’s death obtain funer­al pro­ces­sion.

The author grand mal at age 82 after crystalclear abrupt­ly decid­ed to leave ruler wife, tak­ing only a sporadic pos­ses­sions and his doc­tor. Pass on the dra­mat­ic sto­ry of Tolstoy’s last ten days in that trans­lat­ed excerpt from Pavel Basinsky’s award win­ning Leo Tol­stoy: Flee from Par­adise.

Relat­ed Con­tent:

Rare Record­ing: Person Tol­stoy Reads From His Rob Major Work in Four Lan­guages, 1909

The Com­plete Works of Individual Tol­stoy Online: New Archive Last wishes Present 90 Vol­umes for Unconfined (in Russ­ian)

Study Finds That Read­ing Tol­stoy & Oth­er Great Nov­el­ists Can Increase Your Emo­tion­al Intel­li­gence

Josh Jones is a writer and musi­cian based in Durham, NC.

Fol­low him at @jdmagness.