Leo Tolstoy by Andrei Zorin biographical war and memory

war and memory

conceived by Arseny Zhilyaev and Ilya Budraitskis and organized by V-A-C Foundation

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Leo Tolstoy by Andrei Zorin biographical war and memoryWhen he arrived in Moscow in 1851, a young Leo Tolstoy set himself three immediate aims: to gamble, to marry and to obtain a post. At that time he managed only the first. The writer's momentous life would be full of forced breaks and abrupt departures, from the death of his beloved parents to an abandonment of the social class into which he had been born. Andrei Zorin skilfully pieces together Tolstoy's life, offering an account of the novelist's