Some articles on tolstoy:
... She was first introduced to Leo Tolstoy in 1862, when she was 18 years-old ... At 34, Tolstoy was 16 years her senior. 1862 the couple became formally engaged after Tolstoy gave Sophia a written proposal of marriage, marrying a week later in Moscow ...
... There were 29 households out of which 17.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 69.0% were married couples living together, and 31.0% were non-families. 31.0% of all households were made up of individuals and 20.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older ...
... archaic, it reaches over the heads of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky (whose relationship with the Russian language was often uneasy) to the tradition of Pushkin." He deals ... being influenced by Chekhov along with Leo Tolstoy and Ivan Bunin, saying "Bunin taught me not to compromise, and to go on believing in myself ... And from Tolstoy I learned not to be afraid of being naïve." ...
... Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) was a Russian writer ... Tolstoy (masculine), Tolstaya (feminine), or Tolstoye (neuter) may also refer to ...
... words the photographs diaries of countess Sophia Tolstoy ... Sonya The Life of Countess Tolstoy ... Married to Tolstoy ...
Famous quotes containing the word tolstoy:
“To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can’t eat it.”
—Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910)
“If I had any doubts at all about the justice of my dislike for Shakespeare, that doubt vanished completely. What a crude, immoral, vulgar, and senseless work Hamlet is. The whole thing is based on pagan vengeance; the only aim is to gather together as many effects as possible; there is no rhyme or reason about it.”
—Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910)
“Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.”
—Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910)