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1 Tolstoy: An Examined Life Associate Professor Shannon Gramse Opportunities for Lifelong Education (OLÉ!) University of Alaska Anchorage September - October, 2016
2 Yesterday a conversation about divinity and faith suggested to me a great, a stupendous idea to the realization of which I feel capable of dedicating my whole life. This is the idea the founding of a new religion corresponding to the development of mankind: the religion of Christ, but purged of all dogma and mystery, a practical religion, not promising future bliss but realizing bliss on earth. I understand that to bring this idea to fulfillment the conscientious labor of generations towards this end will be necessary. -Leo Tolstoy, Diary (1855)
3 And just as I believed then, that there is a little green stick, on which is written the secret that will destroy all evil in people, and give them great blessings, so now I believe that such a truth exists and that it will be revealed to people and will give them what it promises. --Leo Tolstoy, Recollections (1902)
4 Yasnaya Polyana
5 Yasnaya Polyana ( clear glade ), 4,000 acres, 120 miles south of Moscow
6 Ilya Repin painting of Tolstoy plowing at Yasnaya Polyana, 1889
7 Tolstoy s grave at Yasnaya Polyana
8 Tolstoy Chronology 1828 Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy born August 28 at Yasnaya Polyana, youngest of four brothers 1830 Death of his mother shortly after giving birth to a daughter, Maria 1836 Death of his father from stroke 1841 Death of Tolstoy children s guardian an aunt 1842 Starts to read Rousseau 1844 Enters Kazan University 1847 Inherits Yasnaya Polyana, leaves Kazan University, begins social reforms for Yasnaya Polyana s peasants 1848 Moves to Moscow, struggles with alcohol, gambling, venereal disease 1849 First serious attempts at writing, volunteers for the army, goes to Chechnya
9 1848: Man about Moscow, hedonist, addict
10 1852 Childhood published, first of planned four-part semiautobiographical work, Four Periods Growth, author identified only as L.N Fighting in the Caucasus, writes Boyhood and stories of army life, censored version of The Raid attracts popular and critical acclaim 1854 Promoted to ensign, transferred to Crimean War, fights with artillery brigade 1856 Death of brother Dimitri, steady output of successful short fiction under full name ( Sevastapol Sketches, The Wood-Felling, The Snow Storm, etc., resigns army and returns to Yasnaya Polyana 1857 Visits France and Switzerland, studies European education 1859 Opens school for peasant children at Yasnaya Polyana 1860 Death of brother Nikolai (like Levin s brother Nikolai in Anna Karenina) 1862 Marries Sophia Andreyevna, creates educational journal called Yasnaya Polyana, first police raid on house 1863 First of 13 children is born, publishes The Cossacks ( part four of Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth)
11 1854: Newly promoted officer headed to Crimean War
12 1855: Valley of the Shadow of Death by Robert Fenton
13 1862: Marries Sophia Andreyevna
14 War and Peace Written under the best conditions of life 1200 pages, four volumes plus two epilogues and an appendix Published serially in magazines, , hugely popular Genre-buster: What is War and Peace? It is not a novel, even less is it a poem, and still less an historical chronicle. War and Peace is what the author wished and was able to express in the form in which it is expressed. (1886: Some Words about War and Peace ) Epic scope, cast of thousands, mixes fictional and historical characters, a loose baggy monster (Henry James) built around complex juxtapositions Focuses on Napoleon's 1812 invasion of Russia and intersecting fates of the aristocratic Bezukhov, Bolkonsky, and Rostov families Illustrates life s labyrinth of linkages, the deep interconnectedness of everyone and everything, with all its beauty, tragedy, spiritual import Rich with ideas about history, which is shaped less by great men than by countless small actors Pierre Bezukhov ( Peter Earless ) is primary Tolstoy semiautobiographical stand-in
15 1872 Publishes ABC primer and Tales for Children, including God Sees the Truth, But Waits Anna Karenina Deepening spiritual concerns and interests in education delayed novel s production: I cannot tear myself away from living creatures to bother about imaginary ones. Over 800 pages, eight parts, also published serially, also enormously popular Tolstoy considered Anna Karenina his first novel Like War and Peace, A.K. also distinguished by incredible detail and psychological realism (though focused here on family intimacies, morality, and metaphysics as set against contemporary Russian social and political issues of the 1870s) Essentially the story of two contrasting, interwoven marriages, one successful and the other tragic Epigram: Vengeance is mine; I will repay (Romans 12:19) Famous opening line: All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Konstantin Levin is primary Tolstoy (semi)autobiographical stand-in Levin s spiritual quest and ultimate epiphany clearly foreshadows Confession: Without knowing what I am and why I m here, it is impossible for me to live. And I cannot know that, therefore I cannot live, Levin would say to himself
16 1879 Begins writing Confession 1881 Publishes What Men Live By in children s journal, first fiction since Anna Karenina 1882 Confession banned in Russia (Published 1884 in Switzerland and not until 1906 in Russia), police spying intensifies, participates in Moscow census, increasing concern for urban poverty 1883 Writes What I Believe, also banned 1885 Gives up alcohol, tobacco, meat, hunting, writes many stories for the people, studies shoemaking, Eastern philosophy 1886 Publishes The Death of Ivan Ilych and How Much Land Does a Man Need?, denounced as heretic, son Alexis dies at 4 ½ 1889 Resurrection published, third and final full-length novel 1891 Renounces copyright and private property, tries to give Yasnaya Polyana to peasants over family objections, engages in famine relief work 1890s Publishes The Kingdom of God is Within You and many other religious and socio-political texts, becomes international celebrity, inspires Tolstoyans
17 1895: At Yasnaya Polyana
18 1898 Finishes What is Art? 1901 Excommunicated by Russian Orthodox Church 1905 Writes I Cannot Be Silent to protest execution of 1905 revolutionaries 1910 Bitter family fights over copyrights and his will continue, leaves home in the middle of the night, dies of pneumonia days later at Astapovo train station on November 7, aged 82. Buried without religious rites at Yasnaya Polyana.
19 1908: At work
20 1908: First color portrait in Russia
21 Chronology of Course Texts 1872 God Sees the Truth, But Waits 1881 What Men Live By 1882 Confession 1885 Two Old Men 1886 The Death of Ivan Ilych and How Much Land Does a Man Need? 1903 Work, Death, and Sickness The artist of the future will understand that to compose a fairy tale, a little song which will touch a lullaby or a riddle which will entertain, a jest which will amuse, or to draw a sketch such as will delight dozens of generations or millions of children and adults, is incomparably more important and more fruitful than to compose a novel, or a symphony, or paint a picture, of the kind which diverts some members of the wealthy classes for a short time and is then forever forgotten. The region of this art of the simplest feelings accessible to all is enormous, and it is as yet almost untouched. -Leo Tolstoy, What is Art (1898)
22 Work, Death, and Sickness (1903) The Anglo-Russian, January 1904
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