AUTHORS STUDIED (in the order we read them): Pushkin. Lermontov. Gogol. Fonvizin. Turgenev. Dostoevsky. Leskov. Chekhov. Garshin. Tolstoy. Gorky. Andreev. Bunin. Babel. Zamiatin. Polevoi. Platonov. Nagibin. Ilf and Petrov. Zoshchenko. Nabokov. Paustovsky. Kazakov. Solzhenitsyn. Trifonov. Shukshin. Bitov. Iskander. Aksenov. Aitmatov. Sokolov. Rasputin. Petrushevskaya. Tolstaya.
"How A Russian Maupassant Was Made in Odessa and Yasnaya Polyana: Isaak Babel' and the Tolstoy Legacy" . An article by Alexander Zholkovsky which links Tolstoy's "After the Ball" to a tale by I. Babel's "Guy de Maupassant" (which we will read later).
Anna Karenina. Text. Arranged by chapter. (On the "Friends and Partners" website.)
Anna Karenina. PBS series page.
Novel to Film. PBS series page.
The Making of Anna Karenina. PBS series page.
Anna Karenina. Illustrations by Leon Tolstoy. Another. And yet another.
Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Quotes. Includes his last message to mankind.
About Leo Tolstoy. Links to some of his works.
A Tolstoy Timeline. From PBS.
Links to Web Resources on Tolstoy. From the Tolstoy Studies Journal.
Leo Tolstoy: Childhood and Early Manhood. A book by Paul Birukoff (from the Electronic Text Center at University of Virginia Library)--the entire text, including pictures. Biography of Tolstoy.
The Last Days of Leo Tolstoy. A book by Vladimir Chertkov (1854-1936). Prepared for publication by Leo Finegold.
The Tragedy of Tolstoy. A biography of her father by Aleksandra Tolstaya, published in 1933. A First-hand view. [File must be downloaded.]
Reminiscences of Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy A book by Maxim Gorky (20th cent. Russian writer). [File must be downloaded.]
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy. Links to some sources from Funet Russian Archive.
Tolstoy Lecture Hall. Chat group on Tolstoy.
Public Electronic Library. Source for Tolstoy's works in Russian. (Evgeny Peskin, moderator).
"How A Russian Maupassant Was Made in Odessa and Yasnaya Polyana: Isaak Babel' and the Tolstoy Legacy". An article by Alexander Zholkovsky.
Radio Discussion on July 27, 1997 with professors of literature at Ohio University, Marilyn Atlas and Edgar Whan (joined by scholar Peter Heidtmann). Transcript of their discussion of Leo Tolstoy's short stories, "Master and Man" and "The Death of Ivan Ilych".
(English Language Sources)
Images of Leo Tolstoy. From the Tolstoy Studies Journal.
Yasnaya Poliana. Pictures of Tolstoy's estate (where he was born, where he lived for about 60 years, etc.). Page from Mauro Corso.
The Lev Tolstoy Estate-Museum in Khamovniki. A picture and a short text of a place Tolstoy lived in in the Moscow area.
Lev Tolstoy's house in Moscow. A picture of his study + a short text.
Leo Tolstoy's Grave. A picture from "Find a Grave."
Photo Album of Tolstoy and Chertkov. From Leo Finegold.
(Russian Language Sources)
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