 |
|
| |
|
|
|
at Global Oneness Community.
Share your dreams and let others help you with the interpretation!
Dream Sharing Forum
|
|
Leo Tolstoy - Early life | | Leo Tolstoy - Early life: Encyclopedia II - Leo Tolstoy - Early life | | Tolstoy was born at Yasnaya Polyana, the family estate situated in the region of Tula, Russia. He was the fourth of five children in his family. His parents died when he was young, so he was brought up by relatives. Tolstoy studied law and Oriental languages at Kazan University in 1844 until he eventually left the University. Teachers described him as "both unable and unwilling to learn." He returned in the middle of his studies to Yasnaya Polyana, and spent much of his time in Moscow and St. Petersburg. After contracting heavy gambling debt ...
See also:Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy - Early life, Leo Tolstoy - Novels and Fictional Works, Leo Tolstoy - Religious and political beliefs, Leo Tolstoy - Bibliography | | | Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy - Bibliography, Leo Tolstoy - Early life, Leo Tolstoy - Novels and Fictional Works, Leo Tolstoy - Religious and political beliefs, Christian anarchism, Mahatma Gandhi (1929) The Story of My Experiments with Truth (available at wikisource), Tolstoy family, Tolstoyan, Vladimir Chertkov, Alexandra Lvovna Tolstoy's daughter, who established the Tolstoy Foundation in America | | |
| | | Leo Tolstoy: Encyclopedia II - Leo Tolstoy - Early life
Leo Tolstoy - Early life
Tolstoy was born at Yasnaya Polyana, the family estate situated in the region of Tula, Russia. He was the fourth of five children in his family. His parents died when he was young, so he was brought up by relatives. Tolstoy studied law and Oriental languages at Kazan University in 1844 until he eventually left the University. Teachers described him as "both unable and unwilling to learn." He returned in the middle of his studies to Yasnaya Polyana, and spent much of his time in Moscow and St. Petersburg. After contracting heavy gambling debts, Tolstoy accompanied his elder brother to the Caucasus in 1851 and joined the Russian Army. Tolstoy began writing literature around this time. In 1862 he married Sofia Andreevna Bers, who was 16 years his junior, and together they had thirteen children.
The marriage with Sofia Andreevna Bers was marked from the outset by Tolstoy on the eve of their marriage giving his diaries to his fiancée. These detailed Tolstoy's sexual relations with his serfs. Despite so, their early marriage life was comparatively blissful and idyllic and allowed Tolstoy much freedom to compose the literary masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina. His late marriage life has been described by A.N.Wilson as one of the unhappiest in literary history. His relationship with his wife deteriorated as his beliefs became increasingly radical.
Other related archives1828, 1864, 1886, 1896, 1910, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, 56, 69, 77, A Confession, A.N.Wilson, Alexander I of Russia, Alexandra Lvovna, Anna Karenina, Anton Chekhov, August 28, Austerlitz, Borodino, Boyhood, Buddhist, Caucasus, Chekhov, Childhood, Christian, Christian anarchism, Christian anarchist, Cossack, Crimean War, Dostoevsky, Doukhobors, English, Esperanto, Family Happiness, Father Sergius, Gorky, Gustave Flaubert, Hadji Murad, How Much Land Does a Man Need?, Indian, Ivan the Fool, Japanese, Jesus, Kazan University, Mahatma Gandhi, Marcel Proust, Martin Luther King, Master and Man, Mohandas Gandhi, Moscow, N.S., Napoleon, November 20, November 7, O.S., Oriental, Orthodox church, Peter Kropotkin, Resurrection, Russia, Russian, Russian Army, Russian literature, Russo-Japanese War, September 9, Sermon on the Mount, Sevastapol Sketches, South Africa, Soyen Shaku, St. Petersburg, Strider: The Story of a Horse, The Cossacks, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, The Kingdom of God is Within You, The Kreutzer Sonata, The Living Corpse, The Power of Darkness, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Thomas Mann, Tolstoy family, Tolstoyan, Tula, Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Chertkov, Vladimir Nabokov, War and Peace, What Is Art?, William Faulkner, Yasnaya Polyana, Youth, anarchism, anarchist, anarcho, anarchy, autobiographical novels, chastity, church, depression, epic, excommunication, fiction, government, hanging, help, info, nonresistance, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, novelist, novellas, novels, pacifism, pacifist, peasant, peasants, philosophy, property laws, property rights, realist, realistic fiction, second lieutenant, sexual abstinence, social reformer, state, suicide, turn the other cheek, vegetarian, war, wars
 Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Early life", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki |
|
|
|
More material related to Leo Tolstoy can be found here:
|
|
|
« Back
|
Search the Global Oneness web site |
|
|
|
|
|
Sneak-Peek of Global Oneness Community
Hi friend! The Global Oneness Community, the place for information and sharing about Oneness is not really launched yet (you will see there is still some clean up to do) ...but it is now open for a sneak-peek! And if you wish - please register and become one of the very first members to do so! Jonas
Forum Home,
Articles,
Photo Gallery,
Videos,
News,
Sitemap
...and much more!
|
