Lav N. Tolstoj
Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, one of the most important Russian and world writers, was born September 9, 1828, on the Yasnaya Polyana estate into a wealthy noble family. After the death of his parents, he grew up under the guardianship of relatives. He studied oriental languages and law at the University of Kazan, but did not complete his studies. He decided to live on the family estate, devoting himself to self-education and the study of philosophy, literature and natural sciences.
In 1851, he joined his brother in the army in the Caucasus, where his literary work began. During this period, realistic stories inspired by military life were written: Childhood (1852), Boyhood (1854) and Youth (1856) – a three-part autobiographical cycle that affirmed him as a new voice in Russian literature. He participated in the Crimean War, and later described his experiences on the battlefield in the prose of Sevastopol Stories (1855–1856).
After returning from the army in 1856, he traveled around Europe, where he came into contact with the ideas of Western education and democracy. Upon his return to Russia, he founded a school for village children in Yasnaya Polyana and developed his own pedagogical ideas, publishing a collection of texts Alphabet (1872) and the magazine Yasnaya Polyana Reading.
In literary terms, Tolstoy reached his peak with the monumental novels War and Peace (1865–1869)** and Anna Karenina (1873–1877).** The former is an epic fresco of the Napoleonic Wars and the Russian aristocracy, in which history, philosophy, and psychology merge into a synthesis of human experience. Anna Karenina is a psychological novel about love, morality, and social norms.
In his later years, Tolstoy went through a deep spiritual crisis and turned to moral and religious renewal. He wrote The Confessions (1882)**, followed by moral and philosophical writings in which he preached a simple life, nonviolence, and the renunciation of materialism (In What I Believe, the Kingdom of God Within You). His work strongly influenced Gandhi and the pacifist movements of the 20th century.
The narrative works of this period included masterpieces The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886), The Kreutzer Sonata (1889), Father Sergius, and The Resurrection (1899), in which he dealt with the themes of guilt, redemption, and the meaning of life.
Due to conflicts with the Russian Orthodox Church, Tolstoy was excommunicated from the church in 1901. He died **on 20 November 1910 at the Astapovo railway station, after leaving the family estate in search of spiritual peace.
His rich bibliography includes more than 90 works: novels, short stories, essays, diaries, non-fiction, pedagogical texts and plays. Tolstoy remained a symbol of moral conscience and universal humanism, and his work is based on the idea that the true value of life is in love, work and spiritual freedom.
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Ana Karenjina
Der Roman, den Dostojewski für makellos hielt und den Faulkner als den besten je geschriebenen Roman bezeichnete, ist Leo Tolstois monumentales Werk, das einen umfassenden Überblick über die russische Gesellschaft des 19. Jahrhunderts bietet.
Ana Karenjina
„Anna Karenina“ (1875–1877) ist Leo Tolstois größter und komplexester Roman, der oft als einer der größten Romane der Weltliteratur angesehen wird und für die Tiefe seiner Charaktere und philosophischen Fragen gelobt wird.
Ana Karenjina
Ana Karenjina 1-2
Der Roman „Anna Karenina“ wurde zur größten Liebesgeschichte aller Zeiten erklärt und sein Autor, Graf Leo Nikolajewitsch Tolstoi, zum größten russischen Schriftsteller.
Djetinjstvo
„Kindheit“ (1852) ist das erste Buch einer autobiografischen Trilogie (mit „Aufwachen“ und „Jugend“), in der Tolstoi die Welt der Kindheit durch die Augen eines zehnjährigen Jungen, Nikolinka Irtenjew, erkundet – Unschuld, Freuden, Sorgen und erste Trauma
Hadži Murat
Hadži Murat ist eine Novelle, die Leo Tolstoi von 1896 bis 1904 verfasste und 1912 posthum veröffentlichte (allerdings erst 1917 in Gänze).
Kozaci
Die Kosaken (1863) ist ein Schlüsselwerk in Tolstois Frühwerk und schlägt eine Brücke zwischen seinen autobiografischen Werken und seinen späteren Epen. Inspiriert von Tolstois eigenen Erlebnissen im Kaukasus, legt das Werk den Grundstein für seine Zivili
Kreutzerova sonata, Hadži-Murat
Kreutzers Sonate gehört zu jenen Werken Tolstois, die der Schriftsteller in vielerlei Hinsicht seiner Ansicht über moralische Fragen, vor allem über die eheliche Moral, anpasste.
Krivotvoreni kupon i druge pripovijesti
Die Geschichten „Morgen eines Adligen“, „Aus den Aufzeichnungen des Fürsten Nechljudow“, „Notizen des Markierers“, „Die Waage“, „Zwei Husaren“, „Der Gefangene im Kaukasus“, „Der gefälschte Coupon“, „Die Todesnotizen des alten Fjodor Kusmitsch“ und „Warum?
