Tolstoy’s love of the motherland and of the Russian language were reflected in the lyric novella Nikita’s Childhood (1919–20 separate edition, 1922), one of his best-structured and most appealing works. In 1919 he emigrated to France and later lived in Germany he subsequently broke with emigré circles, returning to the USSR in 1923. Tolstoy was at first hostile to the October Revolution of 1917. He criticized the Russian bourgeoisie and gentry in the play The Swallow (1916) and the comedies The Devil (1916) and The Obscurantists (1917), three of the 42 dramatic works he was to write during his life. He spent time in England and France and published a series of sketches and short stories about the war, including On the Mountain (1915) and The Beautiful Lady (1916). Gorky.įrom 1914 to 1916, Tolstoy was at the front several times as a war correspondent for the newspaper Russkie vedomosti. Tolstoy won fame with The Transvolga Region (1909–11), a cycle of realistic short stories and novellas about the declining landed dvorianstvo (nobility or gentry), and the closely related novels The Eccentrics (Two Lives, 1911) and The Lame Master (1912), which won high praise from M. In the collection of prose works Magpie Fairy Tales (1910) and the book of poetry Beyond Blue Rivers (1911), he drew on folk motifs. In 1905 he published his first poems the poetry collection Lyrics (1907) was influenced by the symbolists. Petersburg Institute of Technology from 1901 to 1907 and took part in student demonstrations. Tolstoy’s childhood on a steppe farmstead near Samara, as well as his mother’s moral code and her love of the people, were instrumental in shaping his personality. Tolstoi, and his mother was the children’s writer A. Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1939). 10, 1883), in the city of Nikolaevsk, now the city of Puga-chev, Saratov Oblast died Feb.
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