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Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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brad62
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 posted 1/27/2008 8:22:50 PM
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So I'm thinking of re-reading his novel, "War and Peace".
I haven't read "Anna Karenina" but i've seen the movie.
So I decided to google his name.
I've always been intrigued by history, technology, space. Stuff like that.
I should include languages also.
So this might sound like a stupid question for you people.
But are there any other of his novels you would recommend?
http://www.answers.com/topic/leo-tolstoy
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Al_Bundy
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posted 1/28/2008 1:42:48 AM
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I'd like to recomend you Sevastopol's sketches. I sure you've read about Crimean war. May be even you know a poem "The charge of light cavalery" and know what does "thin red line" mean. But the best description if the war is the Tolstoy's abovesaid novels.
He was there as a cannon command capitan. Also it could be intersting for you because it was in period if US civil war and you can compare some military detail of US and Russian armies of 50's of 19C.
By the way you'll wonder if you'll know that Leo's uncle was Amreican.
No he was not a one of settlers. He's a notorious drunkard and duelist. As it's said he killed 11 people in duels. In 1803 he participated in the first Russian transworld navigation. After he had his body tattooed at the Marquesas and rise a riot, captain Krusenstern had to maroon him on the Aleutian Islands near Alaska. Upon his return to St Petersburg, Count Fedor was nicknamed Amerikanets ("the American" .
Here's a link (rus)
http://www.proza.ru/texts/2001/05/24-12.html
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brad62
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posted 1/28/2008 1:52:08 AM
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Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
"Forward, the Light Brigade!
"Charge for the guns!" he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
2.
"Forward, the Light Brigade!"
Was there a man dismay'd?
Not tho' the soldier knew
Someone had blunder'd:
Their's not to make reply,
Their's not to reason why,
Their's but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
3.
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred.
4.
Flash'd all their sabres bare,
Flash'd as they turn'd in air,
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army, while
All the world wonder'd:
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Right thro' the line they broke;
Cossack and Russian
Reel'd from the sabre stroke
Shatter'd and sunder'd.
Then they rode back, but not
Not the six hundred.
5.
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell,
They that had fought so well
Came thro' the jaws of Death
Back from the mouth of Hell,
All that was left of them,
Left of six hundred.
6.
When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wondered.
Honor the charge they made,
Honor the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred.
Copied from Poems of Alfred Tennyson,
J. E. Tilton and Company, Boston, 1870
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