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The Countess Tolstoy's Later Diary, 1891-1897
This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.
Sasha, the Life of Alexandra Tolstoy
Biography of Alexandra "Sasha" Tolstoy, daughter of Leo Tolstoy.
The Last Secrets of the Silk Road
Four young Englishwomen retrace the ancient Silk Road--4,500 miles in eight months by horse and camel.
The Legacy of Tolstoy
Drawing on extensive research in Russian archives, Robert Croskey examines how Alexandra Tolstoy, the youngest daughter of Russian writer Lev (Leo) Tolstoy, sought to preserve the work of her father after the Bolshevik Revolution in October 1917. Best known as the founder and lifelong president of the Tolstoy Foundation in New York, where she worked to assist Russian migrs, Alexandra Tolstoy was determined to maintain her family's estate at Iasnaia Poliana as a museum and living memorial to her father's ideals; in addition, she was involved with the Tolstoy museums in Moscow and in preparing her father's manuscripts for publication. Croskey shows how Tolstoy's daughter drew upon patronage networks to sustain Iasnaia Poliana as ideologically hostile winds blew around her, and how and why a precarious accommodation with the Bolshevik government broke down. The story culminates with her emigration from Soviet Russia in 1929, when she was forty-five. The Legacy of Tolstoy interweaves Alexandra Tolstoy's life with events in Soviet history and illuminates Lev Tolstoy's legacy during the Soviet period. Robert Croskey is professor of history at Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Final Months of Leo Tolstoy
These are selections translated from Daughter, the memoirs of Alexandra Lvovna Tolstoy, and deal with her most turbulent years with her father Leo Tolstoy: beginning June 1910, and ending November, at the moment of her father's death. This is the most telling narrative of the final months of the life of Leo Nikolaievich Tolstoy, Russia's most talented historical fiction writer as well as religious philosopher. It is the narrative of his daughter Alexandra (Sasha), composed about 30 years later, in her own words, her memoir. No one loved Leo more than his wife Sophia, but his associates, especially Vladimir Chertkov, placed the artificial advancement of his philosophy above Sophia's love for him and stopped her attempts to protect the family from what she felt were unscrupulous businessmen taking advantage of her husband to advance themselves.
Sophia Tolstoy
As Leo Tolstoy’s wife, Sophia Tolstoy experienced both glory and condemnation during their forty-eight-year marriage. She was admired as the muse and literary assistant to one of the world’s most celebrated novelists. But when in later years Tolstoy became a towering public figure and founded a new brand of religion, she was scorned for her disagreements with him. And it is this version of Sophia—malicious, shrill, perennially at war with Tolstoy—that has gone down in the historical record. Drawing on newly available archival material, including Sophia’s unpublished memoir, Alexandra Popoff presents a dramatically different and accurate portrait of the woman and the marriage. This ...
