The Death of Tolstoy : : Russia on the Eve, Astapovo Station, 1910 / / William S. Nickell.
In the middle of the night of October 28, 1910, Leo Tolstoy, the most famous man in Russia, vanished. A secular saint revered for his literary genius, pacificism, and dedication to the earth and the poor, Tolstoy had left his home in secret to embark on a final journey. His disappearance immediately...
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Nickell, William S., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Death of Tolstoy : Russia on the Eve, Astapovo Station, 1910 / William S. Nickell. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2011] ©2011 1 online resource (224 p.) : 25 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Family Crisis as a Public Event -- 2. Narrative Transfigurations of Tolstoy's Final Journey -- 3. The Media at Astapovo and the Creation of a Modern Pastoral -- 4. Tolstoyan Violence upon the Funeral Rites of the State -- 5. On or About November 1910 -- Conclusion: The Posthumous Notes of Fyodor Kuzmich -- A Word on My Sources -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In the middle of the night of October 28, 1910, Leo Tolstoy, the most famous man in Russia, vanished. A secular saint revered for his literary genius, pacificism, and dedication to the earth and the poor, Tolstoy had left his home in secret to embark on a final journey. His disappearance immediately became a national sensation. Two days later he was located at a monastery, but was soon gone again. When he turned up next at Astapovo, a small, remote railway station, all of Russia was following the story. As he lay dying of pneumonia, he became the hero of a national narrative of immense significance.In The Death of Tolstoy, William Nickell describes a Russia engaged in a war of words over how this story should be told. The Orthodox Church, which had excommunicated Tolstoy in 1901, first argued that he had returned to the fold and then came out against his beliefs more vehemently than ever. Police spies sent by the state tracked his every move, fearing that his death would embolden his millions of supporters among the young, the peasantry, and the intelligentsia. Representatives of the press converged on the stationhouse at Astapovo where Tolstoy lay ill, turning his death into a feverish media event that strikingly anticipated today's no-limits coverage of celebrity lives-and deaths.Drawing on newspaper accounts, personal correspondence, police reports, secret circulars, telegrams, letters, and memoirs, Nickell shows the public spectacle of Tolstoy's last days to be a vivid reflection of a fragile, anxious empire on the eve of war and revolution. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Biography & Autobiography. History. Soviet & East European History. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 print 9780801448348 https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801462559 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801462559 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801462559/original |
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