Out of the Past / / Alexandra Tolstoy; Catherine Wolkonsky, Katharine Strelsky.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Tolstoy, Alexandra,
• TeilnehmendeR: Strelsky, Katharine,; Wolkonsky, Catherine,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1981]; ©1981
• Year of Publication: 1981
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Written by Leo Tolstoy's youngest daughter, Alexandra, she tells the story of her life from growing up in Russia, to working for the Soviets, to her adulthood working for her father in Tokyo and eventually her life in America.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Plates -- Foreword -- A Note on the Author -- Editor's Note -- The Tolstoy Family -- Part I. Russia: 1884-1917 -- 1. Growing Up -- 2. On the Eve -- 3. On the Northwestern Front -- 4. The Caucasian Front, Spring 1915 -- 5. Karakalisa -- 6. From Karakalisa to Van -- 7. The City of Van -- 8. Again the Northwestern Front -- 9. Smorgon -- 10. The Russian People -- Part Two. I Worked for the Soviet: 1917-1929 -- 1. The 1917 Revolution -- 2. Talk -- 3. Homeless -- 4. A Tale of Potatoes, a Pig, and Beautiful Sukhum -- 5. Tolstoy's Sister -- 6. The Benefactor -- 7. In Moscow -- 8. "I Repented Bitterly" -- 9. The Arrest -- 10. The Brooder Hen -- 11. The Trial -- 12. You Can Be Happy Anywhere -- 13. Kalinin -- 14. Yasnaya Polyana Again -- 15. Cow Barns and Classrooms -- 16. Badgering -- 17. Christ is a Myth -- 18. Comrade Stalin -- 19. The Tolstoy Jubilee -- 20. The Break from Russia -- Part Three. From Moscow to Tokyo: 1929-1931 -- 1. Last Impressions -- 2. The Rolling Seas -- 3. The Beginning of the Fairy Tale -- 4. The Sleuths -- 5. The Dancing Slippers -- 6. The Lecture Tour -- 7. One Thousand Yen -- 8. The Student -- 9. Fencing -- 10. In the Country -- 11. Rice -- 12. Beauty Undisplayed -- 13. The Tea Ceremony -- 14. Tokutomi-San -- 15. The Buddhist Temple -- 16. The Sect of the Ittoen -- 17. Dorobo-San -- 18. The Japanese Idea of Decency -- 19. The Samurai -- 20. The Professor's Family -- 21. Jinn-Rickshaw -- 22. The Eta-Outcasts -- 23. The Miraculous Doctor -- 24. "Very Sorry" -- 25. Sakura-Cherry Blossom -- 26. Advanced Women -- 27. End of the Fairy Tale -- 28. How Pineapples Grow -- 29. Landing in America -- Part Four. First Steps in America: 1931-1939 -- 1. San Francisco -- 2. San Quentin -- 3. Salt Lake City -- 4. Chicago and Hull House -- 5. New York and the Settlement House -- 6. The Lecture Circuit -- 7. The Farm Near Philadelphia -- 8. How to Speak Out and Be Heard ? -- 9. The Connecticut Farm -- 10. Lectures in America -- 11. The Blessed Sense of Freedom -- 12. Joy in Death -- 13. The New World and the Old -- 14. The Egg Business -- 15. The Flood -- 16. Freddie -- 17. A Hard Decision -- 18. Edens in Florida -- 19. The Birth of an Idea -- 20. Creation of the Tolstoy Foundation -- 21. The Beginning -- 22. Reed Farm -- 23. Kind People -- Appendix: The Tolstoy Foundation -- Publications of Alexandra Tolstoy -- Index