Tolstoy P
Publisher: Harmony
Published: March 19, 1980
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780517540923
Subjects: Tolstoy, Leo,; Novelists, Russian; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; graf,; Tolstoy, Leo; General; Non-Classifiable; Biography; Biography & Autobiography; 1828-1910; 19th century
First sentence: Napoleon and Alexander I might exchange sociable letters or recall their ambassadors, promise their peoples peace or plunge them into war, sacrifice thousands of soldiers at Eylau or embrace at Tilsit; but old Prince Nicholas Sergeyevich Volkonsky, who had been living in retirement on his family estate of Yasnaya Polyana since 1800, turned a deaf ear to the clamor of a world in which he no longer had a place.