Sonya, Go Away! Sophia Tolstaya Through the Eyes of a Man and a Woman
14 hrs. 0 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Pavel Basinsky
Author
Ekaterina Barbanyaga
Narrator
Kirill Petrov
Narrator
Kirill Petrov
Description
The wife of Leo Tolstoy, Sofia Andreevna (1844–1919), during her husband’s lifetime became no less legendary than he was. Newspapers wrote about her, Alexander Drankov—the pioneer of Russian cinema—filmed her, and her image was captured in the earliest feature films about the life of the "great Leo." Even today, her figure draws in biographers, filmmakers, and theater people. She lived with Tolstoy for almost half a century, gave birth to thirteen children, and was his faithful friend and literary assistant.
But it was precisely the conflict with his wife that made Tolstoy flee Yasnaya Polyana in 1910. The writer and journalist Pavel Basinsky, a laureate of the "Big Book" prize, decided to write a book about Sofia Tolstaya in an unusual format—online dialogues with a poet and prose writer from Saint Petersburg, Ekaterina Barban’yaga. Two perspectives—of a man and a woman. Two views on the fate of the great wife of a great writer.
The Appendix publishes little-known texts by S. A. Tolstaya and essays about her by Vlas Doroshevich and Maxim Gorky.
But it was precisely the conflict with his wife that made Tolstoy flee Yasnaya Polyana in 1910. The writer and journalist Pavel Basinsky, a laureate of the "Big Book" prize, decided to write a book about Sofia Tolstaya in an unusual format—online dialogues with a poet and prose writer from Saint Petersburg, Ekaterina Barban’yaga. Two perspectives—of a man and a woman. Two views on the fate of the great wife of a great writer.
The Appendix publishes little-known texts by S. A. Tolstaya and essays about her by Vlas Doroshevich and Maxim Gorky.
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