The trouble with Tolstoy

The trouble with Tolstoy

DVD - 2012

Alan Yentob takes an epic train ride through Leo Tolstoy's Russia, examining how Russia's great novelist became her great troublemaker. Guided by the writer's confessional diaries, Yentob travels through Tolstoy's Russia looking at the life, work and legacy of the author. It reveals a difficult, restless, ferociously brilliant man with an appetite for causing trouble both for himself, his family and for the world around him due to his fundamentalist views on God, violence and government.

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Subjects
Tolstoy, Leo, > graf, > 1828-1910.
Tolstoy, Leo, > graf, > 1828-1910 > Political and social views.
Authors, Russian > 19th century > Biography.
Documentary films.
Russia > Intellectual life > 1801-1917.
Published
[United States] : Kultur 2012.
Language
English
Other Authors
Rupert Edwards (-), Alan Yentob, A. N. Wilson, 1950-, Vladimir Pavlovich Tolstoĭ, Rosamund Bartlett
Item Description
Release date: Feb. 28, 2012.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
ISBN
9780769791609
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Alan Yentob takes an epic train ride through Leo Tolstoy's Russia, examining how Russia's great novelist became her great troublemaker. Guided by the writer's astonishingly honest and confessional diaries, Yentob travels through Tolstoy's Russia looking at the life, work and legacy of the author of Anna Karenina and War and Peace. It reveals a difficult, restless, ferociously brilliant man with an appetite for causing trouble both for himself, his family and for the world around him due to his fundamentalist views on God, violence and government. "This biographical look at Tolstoy reveals what made him more than just a great novelist, but also one of Russia's most important moral thinkers, and a life-long anti-authoritarian." The Daily Telegraph "Evocative and illuminating...an elegantly assembled profile that includes telling interviews and impressive images." The Sunday Times Excerpted from The Trouble with Tolstoy: D4766 All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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