LEADER 03759nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910456573003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-6254-1 010 $a0-8014-6255-X 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801462559 035 $a(CKB)2550000000036244 035 $a(OCoLC)732957078 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10467995 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000535711 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11965753 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000535711 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10545951 035 $a(PQKB)11465412 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138116 035 $a(OCoLC)967525007 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse51939 035 $a(DE-B1597)478276 035 $a(OCoLC)979577205 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801462559 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138116 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10467995 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL769575 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000036244 100 $a20091123d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe death of Tolstoy$b[electronic resource] $eRussia on the eve, Astapovo Station, 1910 /$fWilliam Nickell 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (219 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8014-4834-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe family crisis as a public event -- Narrative transfigurations of Tolstoy's final journey -- The media at Astapovo and the creation of a modern pastoral -- Tolstoyan violence upon the funeral rites of the state -- On or about November 1910 -- Conclusion : the posthumous notes of Fyodor Kuzmich. 330 $aIn the middle of the night of October 28, 1910, Leo Tolstoy, the most famous man in Russia, vanished. A secular saint revered for his literary genius, pacificism, and dedication to the earth and the poor, Tolstoy had left his home in secret to embark on a final journey. His disappearance immediately became a national sensation. Two days later he was located at a monastery, but was soon gone again. When he turned up next at Astapovo, a small, remote railway station, all of Russia was following the story. As he lay dying of pneumonia, he became the hero of a national narrative of immense significance.In The Death of Tolstoy, William Nickell describes a Russia engaged in a war of words over how this story should be told. The Orthodox Church, which had excommunicated Tolstoy in 1901, first argued that he had returned to the fold and then came out against his beliefs more vehemently than ever. Police spies sent by the state tracked his every move, fearing that his death would embolden his millions of supporters among the young, the peasantry, and the intelligentsia. Representatives of the press converged on the stationhouse at Astapovo where Tolstoy lay ill, turning his death into a feverish media event that strikingly anticipated today's no-limits coverage of celebrity lives-and deaths.Drawing on newspaper accounts, personal correspondence, police reports, secret circulars, telegrams, letters, and memoirs, Nickell shows the public spectacle of Tolstoy's last days to be a vivid reflection of a fragile, anxious empire on the eve of war and revolution. 606 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary$2bisacsh 607 $aRussia$xIntellectual life$y1801-1917 608 $aElectronic books. 615 7$aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary. 676 $a891.73/3 700 $aNickell$b William$f1961-$01033584 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456573003321 996 $aThe death of Tolstoy$92452208 997 $aUNINA