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though she shed her thoughts only with her diary it will became evidence in the trial for counter-revolutionary activity. the evidence which condemned to a label. the diary of a soviet school on t.v. . welcome back here with a look at the top stories. deep freeze hundreds of russians in the country's far east remain stranded aboard a group of vessels locked in by an icy drought two ships have already been freed by an ice breaker which is now rushing to rescue three more. in the united states republicans step in to take control of congress were they now outnumber

obama's democrats experts warned the change could make life more difficult for the president whose party has lost his majority on capitol hill for the first time in two years. and palestinians in the west bank start naming streets after their fallen heroes but critics say the scheme is glorifying people will blow out of their hands on streets been named after an infamous bomber killed dozens of israelis. regarded as one of the greatest writers of all time leo tolstoy has made a significant imprint on literary history over one hundred years on from the russian novel his death he's award winning biographer and wilson says tolstoy's message is just as valid now as it was back there. the seventh of november two thousand and ten is the hundredth anniversary of layo tolstoy's death and tomorrow but out of a tree i'm talking to one of his biographers a and wilson he wanted awards 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 the giant he was the great giant of the novelistic form greater even than dostoyevsky who i suppose the great so that's what attracted me to him and the fact that ever since so it's really become a serious reader in my teens it was his novels i regarded as the greatest tell stories books i'm thinking specifically of war and peace consistently tops the list of the best book ever do you agree with these kinds of ranking. you can't really compare war and peace with any other novel he himself said it wasn't a novel and it isn't really a novel it's a book about everything it focuses yes all the years 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 so it's really about everything. there aren't many books that you can say are really about everything tolstoy with as much loss to for as right out what do you thinking come to say is his philosophy in life well i mean it's a very interesting question what compass is tolstoy's for loss of life and i answer it in two ways if you think of that really quite early work of his cause archy the cossacks there's a moment in that when i live in who's been hunting. for the deer and there's all covered in acts as 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 connected. 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 mosquitoes are biting him just as for him justice for the. warriors and justice of the muslims that they're supposed to fighting there's an extraordinary significance in every single life and he has this 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 over 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 but more in pieces because 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 court 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 anacreon you know. which was a fantastic success as was war and peace and it made him very very rich which he hadn't been before he'd been landed and he'd had peasants and he'd 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 for fear that he would want to hang himself he then thought the way to live was to try to be like a peasant and for a few years he pretended that he'd by the way set up schools not only on his

interstates but for vast acres and miles around the us and i probably on the starting education he was the great pioneer of russian education and even now they sometimes in some russians tools 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 due to christianity and the church is teaching on ethics how to live. the miraculous stuff meant less to him and it was out of that was he involved his core philosophy of life which as you say is an excuse and 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 envied 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 the pacifist and so forth was the six itself was evil.

well he was an extremely highly sexed man and even when these tracts calling upon the world to force 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 slightly 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 tolstoy was a deeply religious man but he did get into quite serious conflict with the orthodox chat 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 anatolian and the worldly young man soldiers or landowners or people very much

like himself heiress to trap. 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 you can sort of. and 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 lamp 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 an orthodox 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'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 secret of human happiness so it's very appropriate it 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. civil wars the first of all the civil war the

revolutions and so forth the tradition of tolstoy lived on and it's enabled the dissidents when they courageously began to emerge in sternness times to look at his example and see that it's only it is 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 told so he'd be alive today what you think he would be doing so. 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. thank you very much you.

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after their fallen heroes but critics say the speed of war find people with a lot of their hands. named after an infamous bomber who killed dozens of israelis . so the headlines here in our sports next with. hello there thanks for watching the sporting this is what is coming up. another name heads to k h l n god climb to the summit with victory over all. this city a two points behind munchie a nike golf pro bowler school at arsenal. reaching we high rushing teddy she said to him are useful to get. now the top of the table of the k h l seems to be changing every day at the moment is now even god who are the leaders

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stay fit everton go to choose one when. colin was a last minute window of their new castle hit by cost west how to spot the absence of their star striker andy carroll leon best scoring a hat trick but a three one win over little. johnny scoring twice both and i'm working through one apiece and sunderland got a one zero win over ten man aston villa who had pesky sense of. what was done with football because when you face people not seniors premier league is ronald didio a similarly say their strike is heading back to brazil and is in talks with his hometown club where it's reportedly about to sign. the deal but going rovers had expressed an interest in signing the former world footballer of the year. switching to tennis in the open where for see there are junk it is safely through to the last state the force that he does not give me a minute break sets in joined rafael nadal in the next round after he came from

a set down to be laughter and also through to the next stage is world number two roger federer he looked like a bit times before coming through the market. on the face be deployed skipper uprights in the last. good see joe will free to come to me so if you could junior the son of the world record breaking pole vaulter of the same name was no match for the big show entrenched into song one sixty six to cruise into the future five six. just as the new tennis season is getting underway there are a number of exhibition tournament taking place one such event is in taiwan and it has featured the former greats on the agassi marat safin as well as the current world number ten mikhail youzhny usually last tasted success in october the middle age you know committing playing to seven for a championship and now the twenty eight year old russian is hoping to add more consistency to is going to try to stay in the top ten.

for it to improve. and you really need to grab. my throat. throw. yeah a little bit more gutsy thing. but i guess he used. the execution tournament might be a bit rusty he retired after the two thousand and nine paris masters and he's currently busy helping the russian olympic team prepare the london two thousand and twelve for the things that i'm doing right. now with the sports writers are present for him because he also became president. very far away from where we want to be but russia has had its fair share of tennis stars recently but is hoping for a bit of success in

a new form of the game beach tennis the country's cold climate isn't exactly ideal but the russian tennis federation is keen to promote it is only expected. the western part of russia is not your typical place. especially in winter when it's minus ten sides and could only be found on the pavement. however that hasn't stopped in st petersburg holding a christmas tournament. in northern italy over thirty years ago particularly in a place the world's top beach tennis players still call home today a resort holiday makers called the scene people hitting a tennis ball paddle on the beach well it's now an official sport with established rules and regulations one that's gaining popularity in colder places like russia as well what can be done and should not be only started paying each tennis. racquets

in full people now take a look at how many people are here for the printing many people a curious to give it a try they find it fan and that's what we're doing we have numbers of people who wish to try out the techniques because it spans the. well fun or not these tennis is starting to attract at least from its much older sibling a regular tennis while it's on the three years old in russia drastically as an infant stage the country's national teams are already competing for top honors on the international scene currently dominated by if you know it's late outstanding results are tough to beat alexander crouch did manage to come close in two thousand and nine by winning silver at the european championships but it is not a scrap the italians have this hour fifteen years now so they are obviously believe . doing it. but i haven't had the opportunity obliterated lives in moscow for

instance we only have outdoor facilities and sounds good but it's a great thing that we now have an indoor facility in st petersburg we can keep training in winter to making beach tennis official in russia is a major push towards advancement into the masses that will be enough to make it popular in the biggest con fan or much of which is covered by snow six to nine months out of the year all this the not as this new sport requires some infrastructure investment to adjust to the harsh climates in russia and make any headway in international tournaments and this is where private capital comes to the rescue namely a former athlete himself and now a successful entrepreneur. who founded at the sports center in st petersburg put some of please be sure that we originally ran a food business and our first profits were spent on providing for our families and to maintain a decent standard of living today luckily we don't move forward and don't need to grow. up and what we'd like to do is find a way to do business in the areas of personal and professional with all that

together business. and fun too why not st petersburg has always been on the forefront of change in russia and beach tennis is one fun example the city is now the center of the sport during the colors. the russian language although largely cold can still provide a natural habitat for beach tennis not only in souders cities like saw cheap but in st petersburg as well as disorder but you could also hold the beach tennis doesn't require that much investment in infrastructure where we are the go finland is just not northern italy where you can easily set up beach tennis grounds in the summer so you don't need anything big on the other hand what you see here is in a way revolutionary petersburg has had a history of revolutions and this is a new revolution that has happened before you see some of beach sports more in the country's northern capital. well said the revolution indeed russian tennis players like there is one i don't even get a cockney go and maria sharapova to name just

a few have already made a name for themselves in their regular game will there be colleagues follow suit to make russia and major player in this sport well the abundance of tournaments in twenty eleven will make that evident room on cost for a r.t. st petersburg. and i've got time to give you some boxing is heavyweight champion that make will fight britain after all the pair were jailed to five each other last month that klitschko scored it off at the last minute up to picking up the stomach in free however the i.b.s. and champ has now agreed to face his or on a fourth the classic consequence that he has any potential bat with there will be a champion david haye up and he had hoped for unification fight at around the same time that we're now after like a little longer to his chance it's. so that he's always bought from our.

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