View Portrait of the Russian author Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy 1828‑1910 by Ilya Repin on artnet. Browse upcoming and past auction lots by Ilya Repin. Price Database. 16 December 2024. Artists.

Tolstoy. A Russian Life. Rosamund Bartlett. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 544 pp., $35. Count Lev Tolstoy is one of those writers who was as fascinating and complex as his novels and stories.

TOLSTOY: A RUSSIAN LIFE. However, Bartlett does not draw a distinction between the many sides of Tolstoy (nor does she dismiss Levin, Tolstoy's literary self-portrait, as a "tedi­ous fellow", as ...

Tolstoy and Tolstaya: A Portrait of a Life in Letters by Andrew Donskov, translated by John Woodsworth, Arkadi Klioutchanski and Liudmila Gladkova. Ottawa, 430 pp., £48, May 2017, 978 0 7766 2471 6 ...

The story of Lev Tolstoy (1828-1910), monomaniac, psychological realist, ... of whom McEnroe has custody, following his horrific portrait of their eight years together.

Few lives have been more examined, not least by himself, than Lev Tolstoy’s. Born in 1828 into the Russian nobility, the future author of “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina” had reasons ...

Lev Tolstoy is in every way a giant of the 19th-century: a giant – or, as Chekhov described him, a Jupiter – of Russia, of Europe, of the world. You might reasonably argue that if anyone ...