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hello again and welcome to spotlight. on r.t.e. i'm now going arvind today my guest in the studio is. this year the world will be commemorating the hundred years since the death of a great russian writer and. his epic war and peace is just a small parts of the. post i was brave enough to question the moral and religious pillows which russia had been taking for granted of a century who was behind the lines will learn. something from his great great. leo tolstoy has been praised for his thoughtful writing and versatile characters when he felt he had to say something and had a lot to say. philosophy was peaceful rebellion unusual for that time and not fully accepted even today this philosophy strongly influenced the pacifism of mahatma

gandhi and martin luther king brought a curse from the russian orthodox church tolstoy is probably the only person who enjoys and i'm questionable authority in the russian caucasus. thank you for joining our program hello alexander we're very glad to have you here with us today first of all what's taking place at yasnaya polyana this year the centenary under verse three of leo tolstoy is dead. no the main events are taking place in the village. a place where tolstoy died and i think that on this day. to be in a place where the great russian writer breeze. his last breath he was buried at just two days after he died so naturally we will spend the next two days i mean the twenty first on the twenty second of november a just. the large crowd is expected yes of all religious

and philosophical conference is being held as part of the commemorations it will move from moscow to a stopover and from there to and just and afterwards back to moscow again there's a long list of participants but most visitors are just ordinary people who come to pay tribute to leo tolstoy these days. members of the public attend commemorations you know stop of or yes. absolutely. are special invitations needed. well there are many people there and there are measures are being taken. descendants are also there as usual. this year more than one hundred thirty tolstoy's descendants is that just their plan and to attend our traditional annual family reunion some of them have also come for the commemorative events. how many direct tolstoy descendants are there in the world today. if you mean the

living ones the right about three hundred people and how many of them are in russia russia has just twenty descendants just twenty the rest live abroad yes how old is the oldest descendant. i think salman or maybe eighty eight years old who are they. and. who lives in the united states he's a descendant from the female line they are almost ninety years old unfortunately the last granddaughters of leo tolstoy software and i have recently died and they lived in sweden and they were well over ninety so all of tolstoy's grandchildren are now dead. there are no grandchildren left as far as i know it was the wish of tolstoy's wife sophia to turn yasnaya polyana into public property.

and you are running out of states what's the status of this estate today what's the status of the tolstoy family can your descendants inherit your director status. not state and the government have appointed me the manager of the state and the museum's director so there's no family connection i have a contract so they can easily appoint another person to the post the russian culture minister and me conclude that. manager and may terminate my contract and appoint a person with any name to the post so the family name has nothing to do with it however it turned out that family members used to run the state in the most troublesome years in its history. those youngest daughter alexandra was the state's director during the great patriotic war it was always granddaughter associate. who was also the wife of russian poet said. i am the third member of the tolstoy family

who was asked to run the state. it was a cult figure and remains as such in literature and society. i used to be a cult figure even in his lifetime. his own family attitudes. what was it like to share one roof with him. i think it's always hard for family members to leave with a genius because people bright outstanding. but in addition to that. story was a complex person. on the one hand he's family loved him very much but. nervous in relations with his family in the last years of his life. that was linked to the external influence of the situation with his will and the problems which the

writer faced in the last years of his life. left home and died at the railway station. his death was a few knowledge to the drama of his life. in other words. you are saying that. this year we are commemorating the sin of his death. with himself his family and the outside world. no you know why the rest in peace can hardly be applied to tolstoy that he didn't die peacefully did he . well first of all tolstoy didn't go away to die he was a very strong eighty two year old man who could easily and independently jump on a horse and take long horseback rides. you could physically he was still very fit the fields at the age of eighty two no longer plowed i guess but nevertheless he didn't leave home to die just

a coincidence. with pneumonia while he was travelling by train. fact his death was even primitive. he left home because of the atmosphere that surrounded him in the last years of his life. prevented him from working normally around by the people we call today everywhere what do you mean by you don't mean there were journalists or photographers journalists and photographers were they really photographers photographers cameramen journalists numerous petitioner's yes petitioner's are a different thing they were also everywhere. a problem for famous people even at the time. as you've mentioned was a cult figure and superstar so to speak and each of. his movements were carefully observed. he was in the center of attention and crowds of people surrounded him all the time but he wanted peace he wanted to think work and write peacefully and he

searched for that piece outside his home. but he died shortly after he left his home. have been linked to yes so intimately that his departure turned out to be fatal and final for him. he had a very large family and i have always admired. almost as if every second person in russia bears the name tolstoy. did many bear the surname. exception from this big family and. perhaps you think. you were supposed to know him better than others he was a typical member of your family and all other members are like him to a certain degree. it would be strange to compare anyone to tell stories in terms of his talent. but some features of character such as disposition and passion and temperament are inherent to most members of the tolstoy

family. i think that we family quality isn't features to this or that degree. you say that every other person is a tolstoy in russia the thing is that the tolstoy is a bright and down standing people who are well known because there are too many of them but because each family representative has a personality. then noticeable and that creates an impression that there are plenty of them. is it true that the told stories are one big. boys who live on. distant relatives or do several families bear the surname. but i also think that the tolstoy's. distant relative somewhere in the depths of the centuries. tolstoy family is very old it has existed for hundreds of years the family tree originates from the thirteenth century. but there is documentary

proof of that but naturally the family has many branches brothers sisters and more distant relatives. some couples had many children some members of the tolstoy family received the title of count and pasta tong to their descendants. some tolstoy's were not counts but they have the same origins yes this is why an extensive family. does the surname tolstoy also originate from the thirteenth century. well the family tree originates from a certain interest who came to live in ancient russia together with his two sons. then one of his grandsons in the third or fourth generation was nicknamed. strange. is a russian word meaning first there were lots of people in russia at the time that

only one family. well you know tossed it today means mass event heavy while in the fourteenth century simply manned big and strong. even at that time members of the tolstoy family stood out as toll and strong people. yes and so the initial nickname as we could call it now became their real surname says vladimir telstar great grandson of. the great russian author spotlight we'll be back shortly after a break so stay with us we'll continue this in.

from. those so many years of past sins former prisoners. are still a lot. as well for sure. those so many years of. summer hoping to find their savior. others shake their executioners longing for justice. those so many years of past. memory is still moment. as well. as home state.

welcome back to spotlight i'm just a reminder that my guest in the studio today is a great grandson of. the russian famous author russian writer great great great. ok. mr tolstoy. leo tolstoy is wife last october both in russian and english why does it take one hundred years to finally have them published. i haven't read the memoirs myself yet i knew that the books almost dethrones tolstoy but i like most people in russia

regard tolstoy as a cult figure the book is said to portray him as a less magnificent figure than the public traditionally thinks of. you know there are two different levels the everyday routine level and the scale of the personality as a whole. is a magnificent figure but it's just think of the ninety volumes of his works his nobles are fascinating as for on the careening i think it is one of the greatest novels of the world literature. of war and peace. and the work avant i think anna karenina is almost impassable as a work of a writer and an artist. is certainly a massive large scale epic work but it is somewhat excessive in some places at least in my view. there isn't a single word to be added or taken out. like ulysses by joyce an absolutely perfect

piece of literature it's rather difficult to compare them i mean that both works look perfect yes in terms of a to stick and the static perfection and completeness and the qur'an and he's on parallels anyway why did it take one hundred years to publish the memoirs. point is that personal notes and diaries are always subjective. some time has to pass before they're published. and it is only natural that many people ask for their diaries to be published he said say fifty years after they die . each time has to pass before some things can no longer have a harmful impact on their children and grandchildren will have their own opinion of them. did you read those diaries prior to their publication.

read my life do you think the timing of the publication was right or they should have been published earlier that wasn't right they could've been published earlier just kind of a person he believes there is no need of making anything classified there was nothing in leo tolstoy is live that should have been concealed no secrets period not even family secrets we should be as sincere and still still himself was i believe this is the best way to handle things well let's see if people in other countries people another continent still know who leo tolstoy is and was and whether they have read any of his books tolstoy yes i have. russian altar writer. books like war and peace. yes anything else. they are told you know.

my grandfather is from russia so. that's why i know a bit about it could have had the name. have you ever seen the new one. with all the fun. no i have not heard of that i have me on the can you know what. we're in peace. never. here you ever seen a movie year very good movie. author . tolstoy isn't here he wrote a piece right. i read it no i didn't read it.

one piece. that will. come if i read it. i read the cliff notes in college which is embarrassing yes now i have not tried it and tried it and i couldn't get through it so i read the cliff. so. i definitely read it and loved it loved it but i didn't put the name leo tolstoy with the name of the novel apologize. but loved it read it. how can you comment on this is this the usual thing. is that any random sample has that you could approach someone in the street and suddenly run into a tolstoy expert the name is generally known though generally people heard it so things are. for instance i bet the same last name so whenever i show my id at

the passport control they always say oh tolstoy war and peace. or seen attacks a camera to hotel reception desk whenever i produce my id the majority of people immediately remember leo tolstoy. dickens in the same way the name dickens is known in russia but it doesn't mean that everyone reads him from cover to cover on the other hand it's unlikely that most russians could name more than two novels by dickens people know his name. there are going back to leo tolstoy final day and his fame in the west. michael hoffman's last station just premiered in russia. it's about tolstoy's final days his final year. that's right did you like the film is it accurate in pre-training tolstoy period. two different questions

give two different answers childlike the film it's accurate in terms of emotions it's made with great love for tolstoy and his wife. actress helen mirren and christopher plummer played brilliantly and james mcavoy did a great job as tolstoy secretary. general it's a good film with great music. i believe the western audience took it well and hopefully the same will happen in russia. as for your second question about historical authenticity in the film deliberately misses out a lot of points some episodes of his life. should be taken as fiction exactly it's not a documentary based on real events it certainly is to the filmmakers consult with you so they did from the very beginning so you have no hard feelings you knew what it would be like no hard feelings at all on the contrary we became friends with

michael hoffman and the whole film crew and i participated in filming in germany is the fact that the film. which marks the one hundredth anniversary of your great great grandfather's death was produced in a foreign country anyway. well i believe we should be grateful that they made this film. if we can do is shrug our shoulders and disappoint this great didn't get likewise. in his own homeland let's note koehler look at what tolstoy his last years of life really were in a report by spotlights in the dim media. in those final years dos too wasn't turmoil over his legacy and his life his estate is now a popular tourist attraction but it's serenity's deceptive the great writer and thinker was never quite at peace with himself agonizing over mistakes made during

he's tumultuous youth and trying to come up with the ideal way of living tolstoy's later years were rebellion he challenged popular opinion by writing the critical as soon shakespeare where he dull to the playwrights literary merit he came up with his own vision of face and christianity and attacked religious dogmas the price he had to pay was high tolstoy was excommunicated from the russian orthodox church but that did not put off his supporters among those who admired toss toys philosophy was another great thinker of the time mahatma gandhi with whom tolstoy wasn't correspondence throughout the last year of these life the writer and who lost so far went further in challenging the foundations of society he rejected private property and renounced his ancestral claims to he's a state this radicalism was not understood by tolstoy's family as

a result at the age of eighty two he felt ready to start a new life over nomadic and left home this ultimate rebel and didn't last too long after just a few days tolstoy became seriously ill and eventually died. thousands showed up to pay respect to the dead writer whose legacy is much more than his globally renowned novels weren't peace and on the qur'an and. things authors would never dare. have you ever thought about the following. it was as you said such a significant figure in his country. his ideas of not resisting violence nonviolent resistance exactly. so how come these ideas became popular in india. and became an important part of the indian culture whereas in russia. they were totally forgotten and seven years

after tolstoy's death most cruel experiment based on violence was lost in the country i mean the bolshevik revolution and. it's common knowledge that no man is a prophet in his homeland. indeed ideas became very popular in india. gandhi used them to create. as the foundation for the entire system of government in india exactly and there were others we can say that tolstoy's ideas influenced martin luther king a lot. showed the path of peaceful nonviolent lifestyle. improvement. but this path is very difficult. unfortunately even in india it didn't last very long. any state is always built on some violent functions against individuals. and therefore.

therefore the food stores ideas are inconvenient any form of government. he was inconvenient for the tzarist russia and he was equally inconvenient for the bolsheviks then you would have been you will never see any type of democracy or authoritarianism but the only just doesn't conform to the standards of any form of government for more probably in space thank you perhaps this is what makes him so interesting but sure thank you very much for being with us and just to remind you that my guest today was of led to another tolstoy great grandson of. the famous russian author who died hundred years ago and that's it for now from all of us here at spotlight will be back and meant they. can take.

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