BOOKS - HUMAN AND PSYCHOLOGY - Толстой-Американец
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Толстой-Американец
Author: М. Д. Филин
Year: 2010
Format: PDF | DJVU
File size: 36 MB
Language: RU
Year: 2010
Format: PDF | DJVU
File size: 36 MB
Language: RU
Readers are offered a scientific and artistic biography of Count Fyodor Ivanovich Tolstoy (1782-1846), nicknamed the American, "one of the most remarkable Russian figures of the Pushkin era" (N. O. Lerner). He, a participant in the first Russian trip around the world, the hero of the Swedish campaign and battles with Napoleon, had a reputation as a brazen and ruthless duelist who sent many innocent people to the next world. Most contemporaries considered Count Fyodor a "card thief," a hawk, a buyan and a glutton - in a word, a "criminal man" who oozed "useless life." However, for some reason, Prince Vyazemsky, Zhukovsky, Batyushkov, Denis Davydov, Chaadaev and other "historical persons" were friends with the dissolute and vicious American. Poems were dedicated to him, hanging and clever, his colorful person got into the works of Pushkin, Griboyedov, Leo Tolstoy and other celebrities...
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