Category: Biographies
_Reminiscences of Leo Nicolayevitch Tolstoi_, by Maxim Gorky, was originally published in Russian in Petrograd in 1919. The first half of the book, consisting of notes, had been written between 1900 and 1901, when Tolstoi, Gorky, and Tchekhov were living in the Crimea. The sec...
_Reminiscences of Leo Nicolayevitch Tolstoi_, by Maxim Gorky, was originally published in Russian in Petrograd in 1919. The first half of the book, consisting of notes, had been...
2. Part 2This is the maliciousness of a "bogatyr"[2]: Vaska Buslayev played such pranks in his youth, mischievous fellow. He is experimenting, all the time testing something, as if he we...
3. Part 3All his life he feared and hated death, all his life there throbbed in his soul the "Arsamaxian terror" --must he die? The whole world, all the earth looks toward him; from Chin...
4. Part 4It was curious to see Leo Nicolayevitch among "Tolstoyans"; there stands a noble belfry and its bell sounds untiringly over the whole world, while round about run tiny, timorous...