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Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, often referred to as A. K. Tolstoy, was a Russian poet, novelist, and playwright. He is considered to be the most important nineteenth-century Russian historical dramatist, primarily on account of the strength of his dramatic trilogy The Death of Ivan the Terrible (1866), Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich (1868), and Tsar Boris (1870). He also gained fame for his satiri…
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culture · Russian poet, novelist, and playwright · playwright · poet · writer · novelist · translator · film screenwriter · also Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, A. K. Tolstoy, Aleksej Tolstoj, Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Alexey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
Born 24 August 1817 · Died 28 September 1875 · Q212575
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Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
“s total independence from ideology and politics, and felt himself totally free to criticize and mock authorities, a trait that snubbed many people in high places. Tolstoy”
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Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
“The whole of Russia has gone into mourning for Chernyshevsky to whom an injustice has been done...”
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In Berlin, as a brochure, then six years later was reprinted by Russkaya Starina (No
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Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
Died 1875-09-28.
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Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
Of a self-administered lethal dose of morphine at his Krasny Rog estate in the Chernigov Governorate
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Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
With a verse entitled "A Ballad with a Pro-Police Tendency"
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Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
Tolstoy started his fifth and final play called Posadnik (set in the times when the Novgorod Republic prospered), which remained unfinished
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Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
“utilitarianists in literature”
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Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
In the course of long dispute with those whom he labeled "utilitarianists in literature"
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Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
“ve come to the conclusion that we do not deserve a Constitution. No matter how barbaric our rulers are, they are still better than the ones they rule. The Russian nation doesn”
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Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
In Otechestvennye Zapiski magazine, was staged the following year in Saint Petersburg, Moscow, and some provincial theaters and enjoyed massive success, but after 1870 was virtually banned and got revived on stage only i
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Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
Tolstoy tried to exert his influence upon Alexander II to make him alleviate the plight of the imprisoned Chernyshevsky
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Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
Tolstoy solicited for Ivan Aksakov who'd been banned from editing his Den (The Day) newspaper
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Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
Personally gathered all of his peasants together, read them the Emancipation reform of 1861 decree, gave money to everybody present and participated in the grandiose drinking spree that followed
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Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
His relationship with the leftist Sovremennik group became strained
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Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
On the day of his Coronation, Alexander II appointed Tolstoy one of his personal aide-de-adjutants
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Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
On the day of his Coronation, Alexander II appointed Tolstoy as one of his personal aide-de-camp
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Sovremennik magazine published several of Tolstoy's verses ("My bluebells", "Oh you haystacks
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Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
That Tolstoy first met Sophia Andreyevna Miller (1827
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Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
Prutkov debuted with The Fantasy a comedy which was signed "Y" and "Z" and written by Tolstoy and Aleksey Zhemchuzhnikov
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Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
Led to a close friendship with Nikolai Gogol (whom he first met in Frankfurt and then in Rome)
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Aleksey showed some of his new poems to Vasily Zhukovsky, who praised them
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Tolstoy enrolled in the Moscow Foreign Ministry State Archive as a "student", where he got his first taste of working with real historical documents
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Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
Tolstoy enrolled in the Moscow Foreign Ministry State Archive as a student
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Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
“Bryullov dined with us and left a sketch in my album.”
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Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
Born 1817-08-24.
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