Both Tolstoy ... combat in War and Peace are enhanced by his personal experiences. He first served as an artillery officer in the Caucasus in various campaigns to assert Russian imperial rule ...

The classic Tolstoy novel which requires weeks and ... of Bonaparte’s armies at Austerlitz and Borodino. Life among the Russian aristocracy with its passion for good living and innate respect ...

The length of War and Peace is partly explained by the length of time Tolstoy spent planning, writing and polishing it. The earliest draft storylines found in Tolstoy’s manuscripts date back to ...

Ryerson W. Jennings of this city, a relative of William J. Bryan, on Aug. 24 wrote to Count Leo Tolstoy, asking for his views on the Presidential contest in this country. He has received the ...

thanks a lot Malloy extracted a 70-page section of Leo Tolstoy’s complicated 1869 Russian novel War and Peace as the basis for the musical. There’s a lot going on in the story, set in early ...

The first-ever Leo Tolstoy International Peace Prize has been awarded to the ... neutralizing additional personnel," the ministry reported Russian forces strike Ukrainian army, equipment in ...

MOSCOW, May 26. / TASS /. The world's leading entertainment service Netflix has announced its first original Russian drama series Anna K starring Svetlana Khodchenkova in the lead role, the press ...