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Video of Leo Tolstoy
This brief film clip features footage from the life of Count Leo Tolstoy, author of War and Peace, Anna Karenina, and more.
Leo Tolstoy in by Pavel Biryukov. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The narration starts off with a brief mention of Vincent Van Gogh, an admirer of Tolstoy, and then it goes on to the actual Tolstoy footage. You&#;ll see him at various points in his life and in the train station where he died, plus the thousands of ordinary people who came to mourn his death.
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Leo Tolstoy Biography
Leo Tolstoy (or Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy), , was a Russian novelist and social reformer, born on the 9th of September (August 28) , in the home of his fathers &#; Yasnaya Polyana, near Toula &#; a large country house (not the present one) built in a severely formal style, with Doric pillars and architraves, standing solitarily in a typical Russian landscape. The Tolstoy family, to whom it had belonged for several generations, was originally of German extraction, and had settled in Russia in the days of Peter the Great.
Leo Tolstoy in peasant garb by Ilya Repin. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The first ancestor of distinction was Petr Andreevich Tolstoy. His descendant Nicholas (the father of the great author) was born in After serving for a short time in the army he retired in , and led the life of a Russian boyar. By his marriage with the princess Maria Volkonsky, Count Nicholas in a great measure rebuilt the family fortunes, which had fall