Some Wild Creature
James Meek: Tolstoy Leaves Home, 22 July 2010
The Death of Tolstoy: Russia on the Eve, Astapovo Station, 1910
by William Nickell.
Cornell, 209 pp., £18.95, May 2010,978 0 8014 4834 8 Show More
by William Nickell.
Cornell, 209 pp., £18.95, May 2010,
The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy
translated by Cathy Porter.
Alma, 609 pp., £9.99, February 2010,978 1 84688 102 2 Show More
translated by Cathy Porter.
Alma, 609 pp., £9.99, February 2010,
A Confession
by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Anthony Briggs.
Hesperus, 146 pp., £7.99, February 2010,978 1 84391 190 6 Show More
by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Anthony Briggs.
Hesperus, 146 pp., £7.99, February 2010,
Anniversary Essays on Tolstoy
by Donna Tussing Orwin.
Cambridge, 268 pp., £55, February 2010,978 0 521 51491 0 Show More
by Donna Tussing Orwin.
Cambridge, 268 pp., £55, February 2010,
“... away from her and died of pneumonia in a rural stationmaster’s house a few days later. Although William Nickell and the contemporary Russian journalists whose work he has explored for The Death of Tolstoy try to make an enigma of the 82-year-old writer’s ‘complex and provocative’ nocturnal flight from his ancestral home, the count had been ... ”