TOLSTOY Lev Nikolayevich

TOLSTOY Lev Nikolayevich (28.8.1828 in Yasnaya Polyana estate, Tula Gub. – 7.11.1910 in the Astapovo Railway station, Ryazan-Uralskaya Railway, buried in his homeland) was a Russian writer. Associate Member (1873), Merited Acad. of the Imperial St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1900). Author of the following novels: War and Peace (1863–69), Anna Karenina (1873–77), Resurrection (1889–99), etc. In Bashkortostan, T. first arrived in 1862 for Kumys therapy. T.’s impressions about the Bashkirs lie in the plot of the following stories: “Vrazhye Lepko a Bozhye Krepko” (1886), “For What?” (1906, “What Did I See in My Dream?” (1906), “Ilyas” (1885), “Does a Man Need a Lot of Land” (1886; there is the namesake film directed by V.R.Gardin, 1915), etc. In 1876, T. visited Orenburg, where he collected biographic facts about V.A.Perovsky. In 1877, worked actively on the plan of the historical novel about immigrants in the Bashkir steppe. Z.A.Biisheva, K.Mergen et al. translated the creative works by T. into the Bashkir language. The Bashkir Drama Theatre and the Russian Drama Theatre staged performances based on T.’s creative works.