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  Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi
Tolstoi's early short stories were panned by Alexander Blok and other leading critics of the time for their excessive naturalism, wanton eroticism, and general lack of taste in the manner of Mikhail Artsybashev.
Aleksei Tolstoi left Russia in 1917 during the Bolshevik October Revolution and emigrated first to Germany and later to France.
Aleksei Tolstoi is usually credited with having produced some of the earliest (and best) science fiction in the Russian language.
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 Tolstoy - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Tolstoy, or Tolstoi (Russian: Толсто́й) is a prominent family of Russian nobility, descending from one Andrey Kharitonovich Tolstoy (i.e., "the Fat") who served under Vasily II of Moscow.
Although detested by contemporaries, Tolstoy was made a count for his part in securing the throne for Catherine I.
Alexander Ivanovich Tolstoy (1770–1857), stemming from a collateral branch of the family, inherited the comital title and estates of his uncle, the last of the Ostermanns.
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 Leo Tolstoi
Tolstoi once said, "The one thing that is necessary, in life as in art, is to tell the truth." Tolstoy's life is often seen to form two distinct parts: first comes the author of great novels, and later a prophet and moral reformer.
Tolstoy's teachings influenced Gandhi in India, and the kibbutz movement in Palestine, and in Russia his moral authority rivalled that of the tsar.
Tolstoy's form of Christianity was based on the Sermon on the Mount and crystallized in five leading ideas: human beings must suppress their anger, whether warranted or not; no sex outside marriage; no oaths of any sort; renunciation of all resistance to evil; love of enemies.
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Aleksei Tolstoi was born in Nikolaevsk (now Pugachyov), in Samara Province, into an aristocratic family distantly related to Lev Tolstoy and Ivan Turgenev.
As a writer Tolstoi made his breakthrough with a series of novels exploring the historical process of the impoverishment of the nobility's country estates and the spiritual decline of their owners.
Tolstoi also published two science fiction novels, both of which appeared in the 1920s and which were revised during the following decades of Stalinist terror.
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 Aleksei Tolstoi - Alexei Tolstoy
Tolstoi's major works include Nikita's Childhood (1922), a lyrical story with autobiographical elements of a childhood in a Russian village, and Road to Calvary, about the life of four people, sisters Dasha and Katia, and Telgin and Roshchin, from the eve of World War I to end of the Russian Civil War.
In Tolstoi's Ivan the Terrible the czar is portrayed as a heroic figure.
Aleksei Nikolayevich Tolstoi is not to be mixed with Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817-1875), who also was a writer.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi (Russian: Алексей Николаевич Толстой) (January 10 1883 (December 29 1882 (O.S. February 23 1945), nicknamed the Comrade Count, was a Soviet Russian writer who wrote in many genres but specialized in science fiction and historical novels.
Aleksei was the fourth child in the Tolstoi's family.
In accordance with the divorce law of the time, the guilty party (Alexandra) was forbidden to remarry, and the only way for her to keep her newborn son was to register him as a son of Bostrom.
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 Tolstoi
Until the age of 13, Tolstoi was educated at home, then at a secondary school in Samara (1894-1901), and at St. Petersgurg Technological Institute (1901-08).
Tolstoi's major works include Nikita's Childhood (1922), a lyrical story with autobiographical elemets of a childhood in a Russian village, and Road to Cavalry (1920-1942), a trilogy about the life of four people, sisters Dasha and Katia, and Telgin and Roshchin, from the eve of World War I to end of the Russian Civil War.
Tolstoi also published two science fiction novels, both of which appeared in the experimental 1920s and which were revised during the following decades of Stalinist terror.
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According to a much later genealogical fable, Andrey Kharitonovich Tolstoy was in turn a great-grandson of some Indris who was "a man of distinguished ancestory".
Alexander Ivanovich Tolstoy (1770–1857), stemming from a collateral branch of the family, inherited the comital title and estates of his childless uncle, the last of the Ostermanns.
Count Lev Nikolaevich (1828–1910), more widely known abroad as Leo Tolstoy is cited as one of the greatest Russian novelists of 19th century.
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 List of Famous Russians Encyclopedia Article @ Uttered.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi, (1837-1887), painter and the art critic
Yury Trifonov, Dom na Naberezhnoi/ House on the Embankment
Aleksei Leonov, first person to walk in space
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A. Tolstoy was above all poet; but he also wrote a historical novel from the time of Ivan The Terrible, Prince Serebryani, which had a great success, partly because in it for the first time censorship had permitted fiction to deal with the half-mad Tsar who played the part of Louis XI.
Count Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817-1875) Russian novelist, poet and dramatist who was a distant cousin of Lev Tolstoy.
Count Alexis Tolstoi (Aleksei Konstantinovich Tolstoi) was born in St. Petersburg in 1817.
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 Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy - Medbib.com, the modern encyclopedia
Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy - Medbib.com, the modern encyclopedia
Besides Aelita (1924), several other movies released in the USSR are based on Tolstoi's novels.
Aleksei N. Tolstoy at the Internet Movie Database
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 Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Road to Calvary, a trilogy (1921-40, Stalin Prize in 1943)
The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin (aka The Garin Death Ray) (1926)
This page was last modified 17:51, 21 October 2006.
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Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi: literature, for The Road to Cavalry
Vasiliy Nikolaevich Azhaev: literature for Far From Moscow (1949)
Aleksei Losev (1968) for his History of Classical Aestetics
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"The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis for all morality." (Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi [1828-1910], The Kingdom of God is Within You (1893), 12, 3.
And so, through their tedious weekdays, they made a carnival of grief; a fire is entertainment; and on a vacant face a bruise becomes an adornment." (Maxim Gorki ["the bitter one"], pseudonym for Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov [1868-1936]), Autobiography (1913).
"The man who commits sin is the slave of the sin." (Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi [1828-1910], The Kingdom of God is Within You (1893).
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 MERSH Volume 39 Contents
Contents of Volume 3 (Baiov, Aleksei Konstantinovich--Belov, Pavel Alekseevich)
Contents of Volume 4 (Bel'skii, Bogdan-Andrei Yakovlevich--Bobrinskii, Aleksei Aleksandrovich)
Contents of Volume 24 (Musin-Pushkin, Aleksei Ivanovich--Nikolai Nikolaevich)
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