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Description edit
Leo Tolstoy embodies the most extraordinary contradictions. He was a wealthy aristocrat who preached the virtues of poverty and the peasant life, a misogynist who wrote Anna Karenina, and a supreme writer who declared, "Literature is rubbish." From Tolstoy's famously bad marriage to his... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Sonya: Add a description of this character.
- Leo Tolstoy
- Chertkov
- Sasha
- Tanya
- Ivan Turgenev
- Alexeyev
- Sergey
- Toinette
- Nicholas
- Marya Tolstoy
- Anna Karenina
- Leo Nikolayevich
- Alexandra Tolstoy
- Strakhov
- Masha
- Dr. Makovitsky
- Lisa
- Ilya
- Dmitry
- Lyovochka
- Levin
- Sofya Andreyevna
- Bulgakov
- Tanayev
- Botkin
- Pierre Bezukhov
- Maman
- Alexander
- Nekrasov
- Shamil
- Biryukov
- Goldenweiser
- Natasha
- Rousseau
- Papa
- Michael
- Varvara Feokritova
- Prince Andrey
- Gusev
- Mlle
- Kutuzov
- Hadji Murad
Setting & Locations edit
- Yasnaya Polyana
- Moscow
- Russia
- Tula
- St. Petersburg
- Sevastopol
- Valerya
- Paris
- France
- Dostoyevsky
- Crimea
- Europe
- Samara
- Vanichka
- England
- Pirogovo
- Kreutzer Sonata
- Vronsky
- Gogol
- Siberia
- Starogladkovskaya
- Kochety
- Astapovo
- Sudakovo
- America
- Kazan
- Geneva
- Arzamas
- Hyeres
- Kremlin
- Gaspra
- Spasskoye
- Shamardino
- Telyatinki
- Kiev
- Switzerland
- Borodino
- Kishinev
- Childhood
- Nikolskoye
- Shabunin
- Krapivna
- Kissingen
- Germany
- London
- St. Thomas
- Tolstoyism
- Boyhood
- Pokrovskoye
- Italy
First Sentence edit
Napoleon and Alexander I might exchange sociable letters or recall their ambassadors, promise their peoples peace or plunge them into war, sacrifice thousands of soldiers at Eylau or embrace at Tilsit; but old Prince Nicholas Sergeyevich Volkonsky, who had been living in retirement on his family estate of Yasnaya Polyana since 1800, turned a deaf ear to the clamor of a world in which he no longer had a place.
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 891.733
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