[microform] Collection of Tolstoy family Letters, 1897-1937

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Description

Summary

The collection consists of 124 letters from Count Leo Tolstoy and members of his family to Aylmer Maude, the English translator of his works. There are 69 letters from Count Leo Tolstoy, eighteen letters from Countess Tolstai︠a︡, eleven letters from Sergei Tolstoĭ (his son), 25 letters from his four daughters, Alexandra, Olga, Marya, and Tati︠a︡na, and one letter from Anna Konstantinovna Chertkova. The letters deal with such subjects as "What is art?", the "Resurrection" fund, Tolstoy's health, censorship, Ruskin, the banishment of the Dukhobors to Siberia, Tolstoy's doctrine of non-resistance, Jewish pogroms, famine in Russia, murder of Alexander II, etc. There are letters from the countess which reflect her feelings about the Tchertkoffs' connection with Tolstoy and a letter from Sergei informing Maude that Tolstoy had left home to die, 1910. Subsequent letters deal with posthumous publications of Tolstoy's works.

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Alternate Form Available

English translations available for each letter.

Type of reproduction--Microfilm; Dates and / or sequential of issues reproduced--2 May 1962.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Microfilm: Date of acquisition--05/02/62. Accession number--M-62-05-02.

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Processing Information

Microfilm Entered HR 05/13/92.

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Genre/Form
Autographs (manuscripts)	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Name
Alexander II, Emperor of Russia, 1818-1881	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Chertkova, A. K. (Anna Konstantinovna)	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Maude, Aylmer, 1858-1938	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Sukhotina-Tolstai︠a︡, T. L. (Tatʹi︠a︡na Lʹvovna), 1864-1950	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Tolstai͡a, Marya	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Tolstai͡a, Olga	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Tolstai︠a︡, S. A. (Sofʹi︠a︡ Andreevna), 1844-1919	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Tolstoy, Alexandra, 1884-1979	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Tolstoĭ, S. L., graf (Sergeĭ Lʹvovich), 1863-1947	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Place
Soviet Union -- History	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Soviet Union -- Politics and government	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Soviet Union -- Social conditions	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Subject
Art	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Authors, Russian	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Censorship -- Soviet Union	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Dukhobors -- Soviet Union	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Families -- Soviet Union	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Famines -- Soviet Union	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Jews -- Soviet Union	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Jews -- Ukraine -- History -- Pograms, 1919-1920	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Literature publishing -- Soviet Union	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Pacifism	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Pogroms -- Russia	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Russian literature -- 19th century	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Russian literature -- 20th century	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID