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3 days ago · While Tolstoy himself never associated with the movement, as he was opposed to joining any organization or group, he named his thirteenth child Alexandra (Sasha) L'vovna Tolstaya the heir to his works with the intention that she would publish them for the Russian people.
6 days ago · Alexandra (Sasha) Lvovna Tolstaya (Russian: Александра Львовна Толстая; 18 July 1884 – 26 September 1979) was the youngest daughter and secretary of the noted Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy.
3 days ago · A popular Australian content creator known online as Pretty Pastel Please has died suddenly with her death being announced on social media. The young woman, named Alexandra, was only 30 when she died.
Jun 16, 2024 · Prior to coming to the University of Edinburgh in January 2007, Dr Alexandra Smith taught at the University of Sheffield; the University of Canterbury, New Zealand; the University of Bristol and the University of Essex. She also worked for BBC2 and Channel 4 as a researcher and a translator.
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Jun 22, 2024 · From many memoirs, Alexandra presents Tolstoy without frills, a worldly person, a man of action, cheerful and loving life, not only a deep thinker and a genius writer, but when needed, he invents entertaining games, engages in them, composes light songs, and dances folk dances.
Jun 21, 2024 · Tolstoy was born in Yasnaya Polyana, the family estate in the Tula region of Russia. The Tolstoys were a well-known family of old Russian nobility. He was the fourth of five children of Count Nikolai Ilyich Tolstoy, a veteran of the crusade of 1812, and Countess Mariya Tolstaya (Volkonskaya).
Jun 10, 2024 · Contemporary Russian political satire is demonstrated in Victor Pelevin’s Omon Ra, Tatyana Tolstaya’s The Slynx, and Vladimir Sorokin’s Day of the Oprichnik. When Pelevin wrote Omon Ra, he was interested in satirizing the intense nationalism around the space race during the Cold War.
