Alexei Tolstoy. A Biography
26 hrs. 6 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Alexey Varlamov
Author
Alexey Varlamov
Narrator
Irina Yerisanova
Narrator
Irina Yerisanova
Description
The life of the “red count” Alexei Tolstoy was first and foremost a novel. A novel with literature, emigration, power, and, of course, women.
An aristocrat by blood, an aristocrat by life, Tolstoy was an actor who played many roles: symbolist poet, realist writer, fierce anti-Soviet, national Bolshevik, patriot, cosmopolitan, egoist, caring husband, hedonist, and epicurean, in love with life and hating death. His fate alternated between rises and falls, literary scandals, slaps in the face, forgeries, duels, conspiracies, and exposés. In it were intertwined freedom and the desire to curry favor, generosity and greed, hospitality and arrogance, immorality and magnanimity. But above all, Tolstoy was a hard worker, and his novels “Peter I,” “Aelita,” and “The Road to Calvary,” as well as the fairy tale “The Golden Key, or The Adventures of Buratino,” which generation after generation will continue to read, will forever remain among the classics of Russian literature.
The prose writer and literary historian Alexei Varlamov, author of biographies of Mikhail Prishvin, Alexander Grin, Grigory Rasputin, and Mikhail Bulgakov, creates in his biographical narrative an astonishing image of Alexei Tolstoy against the backdrop of the fantastic era in which he was destined to live.
An aristocrat by blood, an aristocrat by life, Tolstoy was an actor who played many roles: symbolist poet, realist writer, fierce anti-Soviet, national Bolshevik, patriot, cosmopolitan, egoist, caring husband, hedonist, and epicurean, in love with life and hating death. His fate alternated between rises and falls, literary scandals, slaps in the face, forgeries, duels, conspiracies, and exposés. In it were intertwined freedom and the desire to curry favor, generosity and greed, hospitality and arrogance, immorality and magnanimity. But above all, Tolstoy was a hard worker, and his novels “Peter I,” “Aelita,” and “The Road to Calvary,” as well as the fairy tale “The Golden Key, or The Adventures of Buratino,” which generation after generation will continue to read, will forever remain among the classics of Russian literature.
The prose writer and literary historian Alexei Varlamov, author of biographies of Mikhail Prishvin, Alexander Grin, Grigory Rasputin, and Mikhail Bulgakov, creates in his biographical narrative an astonishing image of Alexei Tolstoy against the backdrop of the fantastic era in which he was destined to live.
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