Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
PREFACE......Page 14
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 16
NOTE ON THE TEXT......Page 18
INTRODUCTION......Page 20
ANNENKOV on 'Childhood' and 'Boyhood', review, 'Contemporary, 1855......Page 69
DUDYSHKIN, review of 'The Raid' and 'The Woodfelling', 'Fatherland Notes', 1855......Page 72
DRUZHININ on the bad style of 'Youth', letter, 1856......Page 74
Unsigned review of 'Sebastopol in August', 'Fatherland Notes', 1856......Page 76
K.S.AKSAKOV on Tolstoy's powers of analysis, 'Russian Conversation', 1857......Page 82
KHOMYAKOV on Tolstoy's view of art and literature, speech, 1859......Page 85
PISAREV on what to look for in Tolstoy's writing, 'Daybreak', 1859......Page 86
GRIGORIEV on Tolstoy's negation and praise for the 'submissive', type of personality, 'Time', 1862......Page 88
Unsigned review of 'Childhood and Youth', 'Saturday Review', 1862......Page 91
Unsigned notice of 'Childhood and Youth', 'Athenaeum', 1862......Page 95
EDELSON, review of 'The Cossacks', 'Library for Reading', 1863......Page 96
EVGENIYA TUR attacks Olenin, 'Fatherland Notes', 1863......Page 97
ANNENKOV on Olenin and 'civilization', 'St Petersburg News', 1863......Page 99
TOLSTOY on 'Polikushka' and 'The Cossacks', letter, 1863......Page 102
E.MARKOV on Maryanka, heroine of 'The Cossacks', 'Fatherland Notes', 1865......Page 103
PYATKOVSKY sums up Tolstoy's career, 'Contemporary', 1865......Page 104
BOTKIN, letter, 1865......Page 108
Unsigned review of '1805', 'Book Messenger', 1866......Page 109
AKHSHARUMOV, review of '1805', 'Universal Labour', 1867......Page 110
ANNENKOV, review, 'Messenger of Europe', 1868......Page 119
PISAREV on Nikolay Rostov, 'Fatherland Notes', 1868......Page 133
TOLSTOY defends his 'novel', 'Russian Archive', 1868......Page 143
Unsigned review, 'Affair', 1868......Page 152
TSEBRIKOVA on Natasha Rostov, 'Fatherland Notes', 1868......Page 156
BERVI-FLEROVSKY on the Bolkonskys, 'Affair', 1868......Page 164
NOROV on Tolstoy's falsification of history, 'Military Almanac', 1868......Page 168
LIPRANDI, note on the Battle of Borodino, 'Voice', 1868......Page 171
DRAGOMIROV on Prince Andrey and the art of war, 'Weapons Miscellany', 1868, 1869......Page 172
STRAKHOV, review, 'Dawn', 1870......Page 178
DOSTOEVSKY, letters, 1869, 1870......Page 189
SHELGUNOV on Pierre Bezukhov, 'Affair'; 1870......Page 190
TURGENEV, letters, 1868, 1869, 1870......Page 200
SKABISCHEVSKY on Tolstoy's characters, 'Fatherland Notes', 1872......Page 202
COURRIRE, a French view, book, 1875......Page 209
RALSTON on Pierre Bezukhov, the typical Russian, 'Nineteenth Century', 1879......Page 212
DE CYON on Tolstoy's style, 'Nouvelle Revue', 1883......Page 213
Unsigned review, 'Nation' (New York), 1885......Page 217
Notice, 'Dial' (Chicago), 1886......Page 220
Unsigned notice, 'The Critic' (New York), 1886......Page 221
Unsigned notice, 'Athenaeum', 1886......Page 222
Unsigned review, 'Saturday Review', 1887......Page 224
Unsigned review, 'Spectator', 1887......Page 225
KAREEV on Tolstoy's philosophy of history, 'Messenger of Europe', 1887......Page 228
WEDGWOOD compares Tolstoy and Thackeray, 'Contemporary Review', 1887......Page 230
A curious combination of novel and history, 'Westminster Review', 1888......Page 234
SOREL: Tolstoy;historian, 'Revue Bleue', 1888......Page 236
GEORGE MOORE, article, 'Lippincott's Magazine', 1903......Page 241
MAUDE on Tolstoy's realism, book, 1908......Page 244
CHUYKO on Tolstoy and contemporary society, 'Voice', 1875......Page 252
SOLOVYOV, review, 'St Petersburg News', 1875......Page 263
TKACHOV attacks Tolstoy's aristocraticism, 'Affair', 1875......Page 269
AVSEENKO, review, 'Russian World', 1875......Page 280
SKABICHEVSKY on Tolstoy's prolix talent, 'Stock Exchange News', 1875, 1876......Page 285
MIKHAYLOVSKY on Tolstoy's 'left hand', 'Fatherland Notes', 1875......Page 293
NEKRASOV, verse, 1876......Page 301
Unsigned notice, 'Citizen', 1876......Page 303
VEYNBERG lends Tolstoy his support, 'The Bee', 1876......Page 305
DOSTOEVSKY, 'Diary of a Writer', 1877......Page 306
TOLSTOY, letters, 1876, 1878......Page 311
STANKEVICH on Anna, Vronsky and Karenin, 'Messenger of Europe', 1878......Page 312
V.MARKOV on Tolstoy's artistically conservative novel, 'Week', 1878......Page 324
SHEVITCH on Tolstoy's ideal of family life, 'North American Review', 1879......Page 329
GROMEKA on Karenin, 'Russian Thought', 1883, 1884......Page 331
STRAKHOV, review, 'Russia', 1883......Page 340
DUPUY, book, 1885......Page 344
BARINE on 'Anna Karenina' as autobiography, 'Revue Bleue', 1885......Page 349
BULGAKOV on Tolstoy's view of marriage, book, 1886......Page 350
Unsigned notice, 'The Critic' (New York), 1886......Page 358
Unsigned review, 'The Literary World' (Boston), 1886......Page 359
PAYNE, notice, 'Dial' (Chicago), 1886......Page 361
Unsigned review, 'Nation' (New York), 1886......Page 363
Unsigned notice, 'Eclectic Magazine' (New York), 1886......Page 366
HOWELLS, review, 'Harper's Magazine', 1886......Page 367
Unsigned notice, 'Athenaeum', 1887......Page 368
TYLER, review, 'New Englander and Yale Review', 1887......Page 369
ARNOLD, review, 'Fortnightly Review', 1887......Page 371
DAWSON, on the sincere art of 'Anna Karenina', 'The Critic' (New York), 1896......Page 381
WHIBLEY, (unsigned) review, 'Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine', 1901......Page 382
KROPOTKIN, 'Superhuman Justice' or 'Society'?, book, 1905......Page 384
BARING, book, 1910......Page 387
DE VOG on Tolstoy's Nihilism, book, 1886......Page 390
OSCAR WILDE compares Turgenev, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, 'Pall Mall Gazette', 1887......Page 392
GOSSE on Tolstoy, essay, 1890......Page 394
LEONTIEV on Tolstoy's qualities, book, 1890......Page 395
H. ELLIS on Tolstoy's conditions for human happiness, 'The New Spirit', 1890......Page 401
LWENFELD on why Tolstoy was misunderstood by his contemporaries, book, 1892......Page 403
SHESTOV on Tolstoy's lack of compassion, book, 1900......Page 406
GARNETT on Tolstoy's place in European literature, 'Bookman', 1901......Page 416
MEREZHKOVSKY on Tolstoy, 'the seer of the flesh', book, 1901......Page 420
CHESTERTON on Tolstoy's fanaticism, article, 1903......Page 437
OVSYANIKO-KULIKOVSKY on Ivan Ilich, book, 1905......Page 438
SAINTSBURY on Tolstoy, book, 1907......Page 443
PLEKHANOV on Tolstoy and Nature, 'Star', 1908......Page 446
LENIN on Tolstoy as the Mirror of the Russian Revolution, 'Proletarian', 1908......Page 450
HENRY JAMES on Tolstoy, books, 1897, 1909......Page 452
HERFORD on Tolstoy after 'Anna Karenina', obituary notice, 'Manchester Guardian', 1910......Page 453
GORKY recommends a young acquaintance to read Tolstoy, letter, 1910......Page 457
APPENDIX: Russian literary and historical references......Page 459
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 466
SELECT INDEX......Page 469