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across the continent roma communities and victims by european governments are being left without shelter or health care forcing them into crime this. may be a century since the world lost one of its great thinkers but an award winning the o. tolstoy biographer tells us why the philosopher's legacy lives on. is the hundredth anniversary of player tolstoy's death and to mark that out of our story i'm talking to one of his biographers a n. wilson he wanted award in one thousand nine hundred eight for a biography of tolstoy and wilson thank you very much for talking to r.c. now first as a biographer what attracted you to tolstoy here's a giant he was the great giant of the novelistic form greater even than dostoyevsky

who i suppose of the two great giants so that's what attracted me to him and the fact that ever since so it's really become a serious researcher in my teens it was his novels that i regarded as the greatest told stories books i'm thinking specifically of war and peace consistently tops these lists of the best book ever do you agree with those kinds of rankings you can't really compare war and peace with any other novel. himself so it wasn't a novel and it isn't really a novel. it's a book about everything it focuses yes on the aids you know five campaign culminating in a battle of our salutes and then the invasion of eight hundred twelve but the further it is on you realize that it's a novel about the whole of russia and also it's a novel about personal regeneration tolstoy i was as much if i lost the fact as writes what do you thinking come to say is his philosophy in life and i answer it

in two ways if you think of that really quite early work of his. the cossacks there's a moment in that when the lane in who's been hunting. for the deer and is all covered in that is beautifully described fantastic scene and he's all alone doesn't quite know where he is in the caucasus covered in that it's very hot very sweaty and he suddenly gets down in the hole. where the itself has been lying and he has this strange feeling of life. reason. with which he's connected he's not sure with the future life whether there's life after death but the significance of life itself for each one of those mosquitoes are biting him justice for him justice for the. warriors and justice for the muslims that they're supposed to be fighting there's an extraordinary significance in every single life

and he has all his thoughts about being an heiress to trapped being a member of society in wall street they mean nothing to him what matters is this feeling of the sacredness almost the holiness of life and the importance of trying to live for other people. now that's a very very early story and then when you get to the end of tolstoy's life and career the thousands of people who were following his coffin when he died and will no doubt get on to this. they weren't following him because he was a great novelist they were following him because he had taught not only russia but the world how it ought to live how we should be less selfish how we shouldn't be wrecking the planet we shouldn't be fighting wars so this early story in which anyone has a sense of of the goodness of life the significance of life and how we should live more simply and more response to nature and to our conscience that really runs through the whole of his life and he essentially and underwent this transformation

didn't he from high society author to spiritual on a case. well what i was trying to say by mentioning because archy is that it's always there from the beginning actually this feeling that we are called to a deeper truer life away from the absurdity of society and so forth the tolstoy family were very grand i mean some of them were advisers to the emperor the family . on whom old prince bolkonski are more in pieces but it's his maternal grandfather was also very grand military and political figure tolstoy himself lived almost entirely in the country at his estate and yes my apology on the he never really. played a big part in the political life unlike his cousins caught in petersburg or in moscow but you're right to say there was this huge crisis in the middle of his life when you'd finished anna karenina. which was a fantastic success as well as war and peace and i made it very very rich which he

hadn't been before he'd been land it and it had peasants and it had a states but he wasn't very rich he then became a multimillionaire as we would say. and he had a crisis what's the point of it all there's a moment in his autobiography where he said he couldn't even be in a room in the room with a piece of rope to feel that he would want to hang himself he then thought the way to live for is to try to be like a peasant and for a few years he pretended that. by the way set up schools not only on his interstates for the last eight years and miles around last night probably on the starting education he was the great pioneer of russian education and even now they sometimes in some russian schools use his a.p.c. to teach people to read. so it wasn't just sort of pious try dreaming but having pretended to be a peasant he then went back to being the reasonable enlightenment man he was and he thought what is good at christianity and the church it's teaching ethics how to

live. the miraculous stuff for leicester and it was out of that was he was volved his call for last year's life which as you say is that he felt that. all governments not just the governments of the sars the particularly evil in his eyes all governments are based on violence and the only way that we as individuals and we are society is to get away from a system of the military of war solving problems of torture is in ourselves to forswear violence but also to forswear the idea of authority so he was an extremely subversive figure and an extremely conflicted person if i'm not mistaken here there's an anecdote that i remember hearing about about tolstoy that he was working on the raid one day and he came across a gang of rock creek people who break rocks with other rocks and he thought to

himself. how much he envy them because as poor working people they were so much closer to god than he was and you can imagine this rock breaking hearing this story and thing here you have no idea of the privations and hardships of my life exactly and there was a great deal of un realism about him which was why his wife for example fantom so maddening in the second half of his life and you know for example in part of the great creed he built up apart from being a vegetarian and a pacifist and so forth was that sex itself was evil. well he was an extremely highly sexed man and even when these tracts calling upon the world to forswear sex were coming out his wife was having her tenth or eleventh child and so forth making her look absolutely ridiculous of course as well as making him look ridiculous and did his contemporaries frequently see him as ridiculous well he. ridiculous isn't really a word one uses of these great giants and where one. does main feature of him is

that he didn't have a sense of humor certainly not about himself but i think over the six question he did make himself ridiculous you know tolstoy was a deeply religious man but he did get into quite serious conflict with the orthodox church well he was. religious in this way that you get in the novels i think if you think of pierre or prince andrew in war and peace if you think of given in. their worldly young man. soldiers or landowners and people very much like himself arest attracts with women trouble and all that and then they reach a crisis in their lives and they turn to what's all about a member prince andrew thinking he's dying. and then what it's all about is this great stride he can sort of. you can identify with the mystery of nature tolstoy was full of that to the end of his days where he parted company with the church was

over the claim that for example the miracles were literally true or that the church had the right to dictate to men and women what they believed and what they thought and how they should behave and so he fell out with the church in a very very big way and they eventually after he wrote the novel called resurrection which has a lamp of the holy literally of the orthodox church in it the extreme indicated to him didn't make any difference to him because he hadn't been going to communion anyway but he was excommunicated it meant he couldn't have a church funeral which was quite a big deal in eight days it was a big deal for his wife who was who was an orthodox it wasn't for him he never wanted to be buried in church ground anyway he was buried in the place the states where his brother thought he'd buried this green stick when they were playing it but a game in childhood on the green stick was written the secret of how we should live the secrets of human happiness so it's very appropriate he should be buried there.

we are celebrating the hundredth anniversary of tolstoy is that what celebrate well to celebrate is the greatest novelist who has ever lived but also this man who was guided with a passion for the truth and he alone stood up against this extremely powerful regime. and told the truth in a world of lies and this was a fantastic example for russia because in all the terrible years which followed his death he died in one thousand and ten the civil wars the first of all the civil war the revolutions and so forth the tradition of tolstoy lived on and it enabled the dissidents when they courageously began to emerge and stalin is times to look at his example and see that it's only one voice telling the truth look at a lot of our look at social needs and they would guided by the influence of tolstoy and that's really what we have to celebrate and you said that he was in essence an

advocate if tolstoy he'd be alive today what you think he would be doing. he wouldn't be very surprised that for example the americans just as the russians did before were trying to defeat the afghans nobody's ever defeated the afghans so he behalf amused by that he wouldn't be very surprised that the bag because of the world. have made a complete mess of things and that what we call civilization must lexington's of the banks and he would be saying just what he was saying in one thousand between yourself live more simply try to love people try to live for others and well thank you very much thank you. for you're economists are comfortable shuttle bus will teach you to smoke. just a few hours i'm certain persian photos and scary store and mirrors.

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. tires head next to the weekend sports update. hello and welcome to the sports news an artsy and that's have a look at our top stories next best thing to claim the second spot the russian prime in the gulf to be eating pizza rivals spar back in a match that sold girls to red cards. all is not lost for russia you'll synergy at the louis be true for you despite defeat by america's cup champions b.m.w. oracle the supply. and in gold retains these late in hong kong they had a u.s. open champion graeme mcdowell with rory mcilroy a few shots from the back tied for fourth place. so another big day in russian

football as a games were played similar time as they across the country on saturday the big all the action sold says moskos secure a second place finish in the premier league thanks to a thrilling three one call back we know a bit to rivals spartak in the penultimate game of the season scary ports. curly on his they seize the initiative in the opening half brazilian midfielder making the best of those early chances to open the scoring seventeen minutes things went from bad to worse for the army men in the second. off after getting a second yellow card in the fifty third minute for us but. the man dubbed despite being down. with a great rebound effort in the fifty seventh minute the home side didn't have to wait long to take the lead a c.b. dubious slice through spar takes the fence for close range goal in the sixty sixth

minute the ivory coast native scored his fifth premier league goal this season in style. on the receiving end of some rough treatment which sparked. a red card in the final minute the brazilian then regrouped and struck an injury time goal to complete will turn into a comfortable three or so spark jock seemingly easing off the gas against him. and paying dearly for it. in the sale of the one second then in no small things to said place or been who could only manage a draw at home to new champions isn't. back from two bills down in. five minutes to salvage. one point proving it off the last count as they. have to settle. for technology left with. three

one. for legation but only just a lot. and the last two were fine spot for your opening when tilikum might see if you had the batter over a stall on the road locos the need for the last call so he's down to save the fastest. broke the deadlock early the second drug in blood. for a story about their joy was short lived as or doleful local back in for just a minute to one was how it finished. well into the greens now where young cool doing craze days later the top of the hong kong open to two shots off the karting a sixty four all saturday and the highlights from foundling pool to followed up is exciting second round of sixty by some more classic shots and held by birdies in the last couple of medals the englishman since alone at the top at nineteen on the prowl for the two in the men's. graeme mcdowell is in second place meaning this year's us open champion is well on his way to closing the gap on martin in the race

to dubai rankings while simon dyson remains said following a second story of sixty five and drawn a mike your i salute to join fools with anthony can the twenty one year old adding another sixty six to his overall scoreline leaving him four strokes behind. in sailing the russian year old cinergy is still in contention for a semifinal spot in the louis vuitton true feat taking place in dubai that despite struggling throughout the opening day of the second round robin synergy ewald faced an uphill challenge in the form of b.m.w. oracle racing boils over leaders and draining america's cup champions and oracle skipper james spithill did all right things seen the priest stopped their options tried to who came by the empire as flag day penalty meaning synergy started three lengths behind oracle and last forty eight seconds the americans the us maintain

overall lead while synergy can still make it into the next stage they are tied for fourth place with the top four making the semi's and two maurice's still to go. now and have missed the chance to go top of the cage shell standings following a two on defeat at the hands of fellow high flyers. see bait on saturday is then soon going to be able to say but missed some of the numbers plus shows by missing a last gasp goal for them but that was mere consolation for the nominee the state one point adrift of late does it all work one way that works and at the other end of the table the middle of a police nails can move to the bottom off the beating beat is three won also on home ice. and while winning is also important to these hockey players they've got a better cause in mind as they the skates the nationwide series of events on to the flag of goodwill seeing politicians journalists athletes and celebrities team up and has already raised over four million dollars to help hundreds of children in

need at the latest event in moscow the group decided to attract donations by using ice hockey a rivalry between russia and the czech republic at pro level these games have always glued millions to their t.v.'s and brought thousands to the stands and these stanier old players from spartak moscow and sparta prague perhaps got a taste of what it might feel like in the not so distant future however there was no loser in this game as another nineteen sick children will receive the much needed funds for their treatments and the fast they happy to as they could become witness of a new tradition between the czechs and the russians. movements and we can go hand in hand with such events have been run within the framework of both the games and the world will discuss this with the organizing committee of the so actually big games and see what we can do with the organizing committee for the. games as well which i think will by the way it's implemented in such

a charge of projects and they've been bold cases over to cuba. and finally where the battle of champions was held on friday here in the russian capital because that's in but out of past the details. of different martial arts always argue which fighting to make the stuff what however the battle of champion. this is probably the best way to find the truth the can petition is unique it gives an opportunity for athletes of eighteen fighting styles to face each other in one ring this time one thousand world and european champions going to battle it out in the lemon about to discover who's fighting back ground beats the rest this version you know it's not a show all these fights a very tough and they are all for real every school if i'd known as its own method they are all sure that their way is the right one so every time they face each other it's a matter of order to win but anyway it's at the school that wins but a particular fight for it in particular about. one of the most impressive fights of

the night was between that and the looks on those that are in the rivals have already met each other twice and this call was equal and this time five books eleven scored a point swing over the twenty seven year old in itself and big ticket would do but they have to respond if it's to fighting what to top the evening's mannion with two world titles medal dowd in two disciplines alexander russia phrase michael six all from the u.s. to become world champion and been credited on the russian wrestler dominated from the opening round giving his opponent no chance to get back into contention twenty two year old should by teens he kept throwing his rival to the floor the older russian was delighted with the victory showed long before the end of the encounter there was a team of sadness as it his last had a fight bowing out of the ring at the top due to a long term injury. on the one hand i'm very happy and would like to thank everyone and my opponent as well but on the other hand it's

a little bit sad as i have to finish my professional career because of injuries so it was my last fight in the ring however i'm going to stay involved training young fighters. and in the final battle of the night go for tribal corelli for the world title in keep boxing the thirty eight year old italian. never really student chance in a blizzard of punches and kicks from the russian thirty year old who are sick of simply thresh his opponent lending punches to the stomach and had many an early or even their two for the tally on the referee had to stop before it in the third round after a hail of blows a good day's work though for the formidable russian foreigner who is now grabbed hold the belt and and the crown of absolute world champion. my opponent is a very non-typical kick boxer and i experienced problems with his kicks in the first round but my tough training helped me then and i'm sure the punches i threw it in would finally find the target and that's what happened. martial arts are very

popular in russia a full house at the luzhniki arena was evidence with big daters getting the rare chance to see the top fighters from various martial arts in action doing battle in one ring can say about half of our team. that's late is the spot for the moment time now to check the wild weather stay with us hungry for the full story we've got it fast the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on.

they faced it this is not a provocation but warned. before it and we should see everybody is sure to support victory speech they have no idea about the hardships to face. one it is this is it of them too nice to him for in the army the life of abuse is the most precious thing in the world. is of self-sacrifice and heroism with those who understand it fully but you have to live it.