The tragedy of Tolstoy / by Countess Alexandra Tolstoy; translated…
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Creator
Tolstoy, Alexandra, 1884-1979.
Title
The tragedy of Tolstoy / by Countess Alexandra Tolstoy; translated by Elena Varneck.
Publisher
New Haven : Yale University Press; London : H. Milford, Oxford University Press
Date
1933
Description
Signed by the translator Elena Varneck
Identifier
http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu:80/record=b2174796~S1
Subject
Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910.
Contributor
Countess Alexandra Tolstoy was the youngest daughter and secretary of the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. The Bolsheviks imprisoned Alexandra Tolstoy in 1920 but she was installed as the director of the Tolstoy museum in Yasnaya Polyana the next year. She left the Soviet Union in 1929, and settled in the United States, where she founded the Tolstoy Foundation. She became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1941
Elena Varneck, 1891-1976, was a Russian American historian. Translator at the Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C., for the Provisional Government, 1928-29. Instructor of Russian language at Stanford University
Language
English. Translation from the Russian