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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 was too great so that's what attracted me to him and the fact that ever since so it's really become a serious reason remote it was his novels and so 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 ranking 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 the 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 was as much f. a loss of fact as writes out 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 a lean in who's been hunting. for the dia and there's all covered in that is beautifully described fantastic scene and he's all alone he 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 of reason. with which he's trying next to. he's not sure whether the future life whether there's life after death but the significance of life itself for each one of those must peters are biting him just

as for him just as for the. warriors and justice of the muslims they're supposed to 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 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 only 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 century and underwent its transformation didn't he from high society author to spiritual allocate storm 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 whole concept of family. on whom old principle construct more pieces based his maternal grandfather was also a 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 cousin's cotton pieces. but you're

right to say there was this huge crisis in the middle of his life when he'd finished and i train you know. which was a fantastic success as well as war and peace and i made him very very rich which he hadn't been before he'd been land and 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 feel 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. by the way set up schools not only on his interstates the vast acres and miles around last 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 b. 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 man he was and he thought what is good about christianity and the church it's teaching ethics how to live. the miraculous stuff from leicester and it was out of that was he involved 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 as 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 breakers you know people who break rocks with other rocks and he thought to himself. how much he enjoyed 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 on realism about him which was why his wife for example phantom 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 a pacifist and so forth was the 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 whatever one. dismaying 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 yet also i 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 one piece if you think of given in. their worldly young man. soldiers or land innocent people very much like himself everest attracts with women trouble and all that and then they reach a crisis in their lives and they turn to what's all about to member prince andrew thinking he's dying. and then what it's all about is this great stride you 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 in 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 lot of the holy liturgy 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 its days it was a big deal for his wife who was who was unorthodox it wasn't for him he'd never wanted to be buried in church ground anyway he was buried in the place the states where his brother thought he 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 secret of human happiness so it's very appropriate he should be buried there we are celebrating the hundredth anniversary of tolstoy is that what's to 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 and it enabled the dissidents when they courageously began to imagine stalinist times to look at his example and see that it's an easy one voice telling the truth look at

a matter of i look at social needs and they would dieted by the influence of tolstoy and that's really what we have to celebrate and he said that he was in essence and i can't if tolstoy had a life 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. had made a complete mess of things and that what we call civilisation must lapse into the banks and he would be saying just what he was saying in one thousand and fifteen yourself live more simply try to love people try to live for others and well thank you very much thank you.

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a second straight road win while missing kevin durand. so another big weekend and russian football games were played similar across the country on sound the same the big all the actions of all school security second place finish in the premier league thanks to a thrilling comeback victory over spartak in the penultimate game of the season reports. nothing still trouble first part tucker leon is they seize the initiative in the opening hand brazilian midfielder absent making the best out of those early chances to open the scoring seventeen minutes things went from bad to worse for the army men in the second that beat a share off after getting a second yellow card in the fifty third minute for the ref but says conflict is seen in the man dubbed despite being down keisuke honda rejuvenating the team with a great rebound effort in the fifty seventh minute the home side didn't have to

wait long to take the lead a cd doing be a slice through spark takes the fence for a close range goal in the sixty sixth minute the ivory coast native scored his fifth pretty goal this season in style when your love was 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 cut for both three one win so spark shock seemed the easing of the gas against him in cisco and paying dearly for. archie. in a salable in second and in no small thanks to third place or being who could only manage a joy at home to new champions meet the current champions got on board the festive it defies it and strike taking deflection from them on the mayor eyeing the air over open minds in the same as any devil delayed to there is stopped and his shot his blood straight into exotic coughs faint and he loves it to his state has plenty

of time to think the finish however it eight minutes late have bet five a host saying well executive cross and caesar not once has a man to walk back and than an interception in midfield turns into i like saying that if they call lies on one point pretty enough for me into playing the last time because they spot ahead of spartak moscow will have to settle in europe and. and the last school of the europa league to look on the t.v. who had the better over a stall on the road. dimitri last call sold his battle to save in the first off but their constituents break the deadlock in the second drug and blood not take allies for a stall but their joy was short lived as a tool to become to confront just a month later so to watch it was how it finished. else was part acknowledge she quit last with no consonantal football next season up losing three one as a car while fighting for survival they are a boxer legation but only just

a lot of breathing down their necks following a two one victory over terrorists. meanwhile the english season is just approaching its midpoint and it's only getting tighter in the opera section of the table as both chelsea and also added want to the losing call to day is going to them at the emirates stadium unesco boules scoring the winning header the spurs could lose sleep to leave where scored the only first goal that allowed manchester united to catch up with them on top with a two no window wigan and liverpool moved up to the ninth off to beating west ham three nil. in the n.b.a. the oklahoma city thunder are showing everybody what exactly the word team means to beating the celtics in boston the day before last season's breakout schooled stage their second straight road victory in may locate without two of the best players in the lineup the thunder once again with the league's top scorer cameron durand and

jeff green russell westbrook use the go to guy in their up so she was able to lead them pawns the celtics and he's ahead of the pack here to. third. the bucs themselves pretty good at this point guard position second year man brandon jennings got in the lead to a point to their first so late in the game they're terrible shooting from both teams in this want to actually jennings missed the story though. and so i think he discovered just like that he was a boss and were able to rise the game from the free throw line. elsewhere as steve jackson had the first triple double in charlotte's young french eyes he's three as the bop has held off the songs you know during wade miami men face where rudy gay he to be winning buzzer beater to leave the grizzlies over the heat elsewhere use it again victorious against strong opposition all of the rules as the blazers go down for the second straight game and also the next now only

three games winning streak up to topping the clippers. some scores now ends in a moscow have missed the chance to go top of the cage shelf following a two one defeat at the hands of fellow high applause c b. if you call it save at least some of the numbers blushes by meeting a last gasp goal for them but that was mere consolation for the novel state one point adrift of leaders with the liquidity of course and the other end of the table with a little clues doubts moved up the bottom off the beating beat is three won also old who was. now in sailing the russian ewald synergies still in contention for a semi final spot in the louis trophy taking place in dubai despite struggling throughout the opening day of the second round job in the synergy you will face an uphill challenge in the pool will be m.w. oracle both you and draining america's cup champions and oracle skipper james speed rail did all the right things in the pretty start the russians tried to hoop him

but the forest flagged a penalty meaning synergy started three boot lengths behind oracle and they lost forty eight seconds the americans maintained overall lead while sujit retained slim chances of making the semifinals there tied for fourth place with two round robin races still to go. and. the battle of champions was held. here in the russian capital because that has more. fans of different points sure it's always argue which fighting to make this stuff work however the battle of champions is probably the best way to find the truth that can petition museum it gives an opportunity for athletes of eight hundred twenty styles to face each other in one ring this time one thousand world and european champions came to bed only to out in the women's vote to discover who's waiting background beats the rest. of the girls now to show all these fights are very tough and they are all for real every school

fight now has its own method and they're all sure that their way is the right one so every time there's a basis for other issue it's a matter of the order to win them and their state anyway it's at the school that wins but a particular fight through you know particular guy you were used in this is one of the most impressive fights of the night was between that don't live in and the next on this that's when the rivals have already met each other twice and the score was equal and this time i books and let him score the points mean over the twenty seven year old in a tough and big ticket would do but the off to respond if is to fighting what to drop the evening's menu with two world titles medal knowledge in two disciplines alexander show my team skillful russian plays 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 watch inskeep keep throwing his way well to the fore though the

russian was delighted with victory assured mournfully and of being counter there was a teen age of sadness as it is his last of a fight bowing out of the ring at the top due to a long term injury other than animal on the one hand i'm very happy i would like to thank everyone and why opponent as well but on the other hand it's a little bit sad to have to finish my professional career because of injuries so it was my last fight in the ring or whatever i'm going to stay involved in training young. writers. in the final battle of the right to question go for it fabio corelli for the world title in keep boxing thirty eight year old italian never really student chance in a blizzard of bunches and kicks from the russian thirty year old who are sick of simply threshed his opponent lending punches to the stomach and head many an early era to their chief of a talent the referee had to stop the fight in the third wound after haile blows a good day's work though for the formidable russian soyuz who is now grab hold of belts and keyboard and the crown of absolute world champion. my opponent is

a very non-typical kicker and i experienced problems with his kicks in the first round yeah but my tough training helped me that india and i'm sure the punches i threw at him would finally find the target and that's what happened. to martial arts other people in russia a full house a delusion theory and there was evidence this big data was getting the red chance to see the top fighters from various martial arts in action doing battle in one ring can say about our team. at that spot for the moment coming up as the weather stay with us. hungry for the full story we've got it first the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. seventy six hours of intense fighting. six thousand dead at

a beach front battlefields several kilometers long. and now there is only one person who cares. to see we are surrounded by garbage everywhere but also there are . on this beach which of course is very most appropriate signification a symbol of everything that's wrong with our goddamn government allowing not only garbage but to accumulate where so many guys died. a new battle is going on. will the history be protected. return to terra with julian cooper story on our t.v. .