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The Trouble with Tolstoy: With Alan Yentob, David Calder, Deborah Findlay, A.N. Wilson. The Life of Tolstoy, from his gambling and youtful escapades, to his powerful religious conversion and finally death.
In this first episode of a two-part biography of Leo Tolstoy, Alan Yentob travels to the depths of Russia to discover his origins and education. Born into bourgeois luxury and perpetually endowed with financial security, the young Tolstoy seems to have been a thoroughly unattractive personality.
2 / 2 Alan Yentob follows Tolstoy through the tortured second half of his life. At War with Himself 1 / 2 Alan Yentob looks back at Tolstoy's youth, and his time spent as a soldier in...
Alan Yentob reveals a difficult and troubled youth, obsessed with sex and gambling, who turned writer while serving as a soldier in Chechnya and the Crimea. Alan's expedition takes him to the Tatar city of Kazan, where Tolstoy was a teenager, as well as the idyllic Tolstoy country estate.
Feb 28, 2012 · Alan Yentob takes an epic train ride through Leo Tolstoy's Russia, examining how Russia's great novelist became her great troublemaker. Guided by the writer's astonishingly honest and confessional diaries, Yentob travels through Tolstoy's Russia looking at the life, work and legacy of the author of Anna Karenina and War and Peace.
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The Trouble with Tolstoy (TV Series 2011– ) - Movies, TV, Celebs, and more...
Mar 26, 2011 · The Trouble with Tolstoy 2011. Ads suck, but they help pay the bills. Hide ads with VIP. Status Ended. Network BBC One. Premiered March 26, 2011. Runtime 1h 5m. Total Runtime 2h 14m (2 episodes) Country United Kingdom. Genres Documentary.
