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Leo Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists for such works as War and Peace and Anna Karenina. He also wrote a number of outstanding short stories. This is one of his best.

In the setting of what is present-day Kazakhstan, Tolstoy examines two psychological problems. The first dilemma is that of a young man who desires both fulfilling love and a place as a respected member of society. The other is the difficulty of a primitive society to accept domination by a higher culture that has no understanding of the traditions it asks its colonists to cast aside.

An abridged version of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, starring Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck. Anna (Bergman) is a wife and mother who has an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky (Peck).

Leo Tolstoy is widely recognized as one of the world's greatest novelists and short story writers and a master of realistic fiction. He is equally known for his complex and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, developed following a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became known for his deep moral thinking and social reforms.

Tolstoy's final work - a gripping novella about the struggle between the Muslim Chechens and their inept occupiers - is a powerful moral fable for our time. Inspired by a historical figure Tolstoy heard about while serving in the Caucasus, this story brings to life the famed warrior Hadji Murat, a Chechen rebel who has fought fiercely and courageously against the Russian empire. After a feud with his commander, he defects to the Russians, only to find that he is now trusted by neither side.

Martin is an old cobbler with a good trade, but he has had a hard life. His soul is now embittered against God. When he hears a mysterious voice calling him in the middle of the night, his soul seems to lighten and awaken to answer the call.

The Forged Coupon is a novella in two parts by Leo Tolstoy. Though he first conceived of the story in the late 1890s, he did not begin writing it until 1902. After struggling for several years, he finally completed the story in 1904; however, it was not published until some of Tolstoy's shorter works were collected and anthologized after his death in 1910.

Auf einer nächtlichen Bahnreise durch Russland entspinnt sich zwischen den Fahrgästen ein Gespräch über Gesellschaft, Liebe, Ehe und Moral. Da macht Gutsbesitzer Posdnyschew seinen Mitreisenden ein aufwühlendes Geständnis: Seine Ehe endete katastrophal, von maßloser Eifersucht zerfressen hat er seiner Frau das Leben genommen.

In Tolstoy's short story "Master and Man", Vasily Andreich Brekhunov, a rich merchant, is determined to close a business deal. He is travelling with his exploited servant, Nikita, through a blizzard - little realizing that this will soon become a life and death situation.

The story begins with the childhood and exceptional and accomplished youth of Prince Stepan Kasatsky. The young man is destined for great things. He discovers on the eve of his wedding that his fiancée Countess Mary Korotkova has had an affair with his beloved Tsar Nicholas I. The blow to his pride is massive, and he retreats to the arms of Russian Orthodoxy and becomes a monk. Many years of humility and doubt follow. He is ordered to become a hermit.

Auf dem Sterbebett schaut der schwerkranke Richter Iwan Iljitsch zurück auf sein Leben - mit bitteren Erkenntnissen: Sein Beruf bedeutet ihm nichts, seine Frau und er haben sich auseinandergelebt, all die Vergnügungen mit seinen Freunden erscheinen ihm im Nachhinein als vertane Zeit. Kurz: Er wünschte, er hätte anders gelebt. Isoliert von seiner Familie leidet Iwan psychische und physische Qualen, denen seine Ärzte völlig hilflos gegenüberstehen.

Blistatel'naja komedija velikogo russkogo pisatelja L'va Nikolaevicha Tolstogo (1828-1910). V Peterburge, v bogatom dome Zvezdincevyh, v privychnoj utrennej sumatohe snujut slugi, bespreryvno zvonjat v dver' posetiteli: artelycik ot Burd'e s plat'em i zapiskoj dlja baryni, Sahatov Sergej Ivanovich, byvshij tovarishh ministra, jelegantnyj gospodin, svobodnyj i interesujushhijsja vsem na svete, doktor, reguljarno nabljudajushhij barynju, Jakov-bufetchik, vechno vinovatyj, nelovkij i puglivyj.

In the winter of 1854 Tolstoy, then an officer in the Russian army, arranged to be transferred to the besieged town of Sebastopol. Wishing to see at first hand the action of what would become known as the Crimean War, he was spurred on by a fierce patriotism, but also by an equally fierce desire to alert the authorities to appalling conditions in the army. Writing with the truth as his utmost aim, he brought home to Russia's entire literate public the atrocities of war. In doing so, he realized his own vocation as a writer and established his literary reputation.

"Bez ljubvi zhit' legche" - vospominanija, ispoved' L'va Nikolaevicha Tolstogo, russkogo pisatelja i myslitelja. Ego vospominanija o svoej chelovecheskoj prirode, kotoraja sklonna k ubijstvam, dujeljam, kartezhnym igram, k pol'zovaniju chuzhimi blagami, k kaznjam, bludu i obmanu. No v protivoves jetomu vsegda stavalo stremlenie k luchshemu. "Bez ljubvi zhit' legche. No bez nejo net smysla" glavnaja ideja Tolstogo.

"Weihnachten in Russland", gelesen von den beliebten Sprechern Christian Rode und Ulrike Hübschmann, entführt den Hörer in die Weiten des winterlichen Russlands. Zu hören sind 24 auf die Adventszeit einstimmende Überraschungen von Fjodor M. Dostojewski, Maxim Gorki, Alexander Puschkin, Leo Tolstoi, Anton Tschechow und anderen großen russischen Autoren.

Die Zentralgestalt des Stückes, der "kluge, gebildete" Gutsbesitzer Nikolaj Ivanovic Sarynzew will sein und seiner Familie Leben nach dem in der Bergpredigt...

Nachdem Fedja Protasov, ein sanfter, gütiger, ehrlicher, aber charakterschwacher, dem Alkohol und der Verschwendung zuneigender Enddreißiger Frau...

Trotz eines drohenden Schneesturms macht sich der gierige Kaufmann Brechunow mit seinem gehorsamen Knecht Nikita auf den Weg durch die eisige Steppe, um ein lukratives Geschäft abzuwickeln. Aber dann verirren sich Herr und Knecht - und angesichts des immer näher rückenden Todes beginnen die Standesunterschiede zwischen den beiden ungleichen Gefährten auf wundersame Weise zu verschwinden. Boris Aljinovic liest diese bildgewaltige Erzählung, mit der Tolstoi eine zeitlose Parabel auf die Macht der Nächstenliebe geschaffen hat, in voller Länge.

Tolstoy’s famous book consists of four stories and in each of which he makes the reader witness the journey within. In What Men Live By, he looks for the answers of the following three questions: What guides people? What is missing in people? What men live by? In The Coffee House of Surat, he listens the conversations of men of all nations and religions, trying to comprehend God and the universe. In How Much Land Does A Man Need, he paints a quite clear picture of how far greed and gluttony can reach. In The Three Questions, he shows us the real value of the moment we are in.

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