Americans in Conversation with Tolstoy: Selected Accounts, 1887-1923

Throughout his life, Leo Tolstoy demonstrated a fascination for Americans, a feeling that was avidly reciprocated in the United States. Although Tolstoy was never able to come to America, during his lifetime he was visited at his home in Russia by a number of Americans including writers, journalists, ambassadors, professors and tourists.

Many wrote about the conversations they had with the great Russian novelist. This volume gathers together 30 recollections of such conversations, all originally published in periodicals from 1887 through 1923. A brief introduction to each piece introduces the author of the narrative with concise biographical information, and a bibliographical note indicates the time and place of original publication.

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Americans in Conversation with Tolstoy: Selected Accounts, 1887-1923

Throughout his life, Leo Tolstoy demonstrated a fascination for Americans, a feeling that was avidly reciprocated in the United States. Although Tolstoy was never able to come to America, during his lifetime he was visited at his home in Russia by a number of Americans including writers, journalists, ambassadors, professors and tourists.

Many wrote about the conversations they had with the great Russian novelist. This volume gathers together 30 recollections of such conversations, all originally published in periodicals from 1887 through 1923. A brief introduction to each piece introduces the author of the narrative with concise biographical information, and a bibliographical note indicates the time and place of original publication.

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Americans in Conversation with Tolstoy: Selected Accounts, 1887-1923

Overview

Throughout his life, Leo Tolstoy demonstrated a fascination for Americans, a feeling that was avidly reciprocated in the United States. Although Tolstoy was never able to come to America, during his lifetime he was visited at his home in Russia by a number of Americans including writers, journalists, ambassadors, professors and tourists.

Many wrote about the conversations they had with the great Russian novelist. This volume gathers together 30 recollections of such conversations, all originally published in periodicals from 1887 through 1923. A brief introduction to each piece introduces the author of the narrative with concise biographical information, and a bibliographical note indicates the time and place of original publication.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780786422531
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 07/20/2006
Pages: 228
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.46(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Peter Sekirin received his Ph.D. in Russian literature at the University of Toronto in 1999. He has been working as Research Associate at the Center for Russian Studies at the University of Toronto for eight years. He has translated three of Tolstoy’s works, A Calendar of Wisdom, Divine and Human and Wise Thoughts For Every Day as well as two collections of short stories by Anton Chekhov and the biography Memories of Chekhov. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction     

THE ACCOUNTS OF CONVERSATIONS*
1. A Visit to Count Tolstoy     
2. Count Tolstoy at Home     
3. With Count Tolstoy     
4. A Visit to Tolstoy     
5. How Count Tolstoy Writes     
6. An Interview with Count Tolstoy     
7. Home Life of Tolstoy     
8. A Visit to Tolstoy     
9. Russia of To-day (on Tolstoy)     
10. Conversations with Ernest Crosby Embodying Personal Impressions of Count Leo Tolstoy     
11. Walks and Talks with Tolstoy     
12. A Recent Interview with Tolstoy     
13. Tolstoy Today     
14. My Last Memory of Tolstoy     
15. My Last Visit to Tolstoy     
16. Tolstoy in 1906     
17. Tolstoy Prophesies the Fall of America     
18. Tolstoy in the Twilight     
19. Tolstoy at Home     
20. The Last Days of Leo Tolstoy     
21. Talks with Tolstoy     
22. Three Evenings with Count Leo Tolstoy     
23. A Vacation with Tolstoy     
24. A Day in Tolstoy’s Life     
25. How Tolstoy Died     
26. What Tolstoy Means to America     

Bibliography     
Index     

*Chronologically by date of publication
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