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a junkyard. and the palestinians are naming the streets of the west bank city of ramallah off to. the choices are causing anger and israel where some of the accused . of being terrorist. or 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 novelist death his award winning biography wilson says tolstoy's message is just as valid to stay with us. now first as a biographer what attracted you to tolstoy. he's a giant he was the great giant of the novelistic form greater even than dostoyevsky who i suppose of the two great dr so that was what attracted me to him and the fact

that ever since 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 taught these lists 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 effort loss that for as a writer 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 philosophy of life and i answer it in two ways if you think of that really quite early work of history as arky the cossacks there's a moment in that when a leader in who's been hunting. for the deer and there's 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 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 mosquitoes are biting him justice for him justice 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 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 this 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 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 a more in pieces because 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 at court in petersburg or in moscow but you're right to say there was this huge crisis in the middle of his life

we need finished anna karenina. which was a fantastic success as was war and peace and i made it very very rich which she hadn't been before you'd been land it and it had peasants and head of 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 russian schools use his 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 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 me and it was out of that was here volved 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 walking on the radio 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 is there 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 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 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 the of the in in. the 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 it's all about to member prince andrew thinking he's dying. and then what it's all about is this great stride. you can identify with the ministry 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 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 secrets of human happiness so it's very appropriate he should be buried there 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 the merchants down in this times to look at his example and see that it's only it is one voice telling the truth look at a smart of i 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 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 bankers 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.

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a choice. of all the sports with how do you know. what the future looks bright for russian ice hockey. well the senior team freefall at the moment after having two of their best years in decades but the future is indeed bright as you say of the youth team they're the best in the world more not coming up in just a second or. thanks for joining us this is sports today i'm if you know me these are headlines this hour. on top of the world and youth ice hockey champions for the first time i mean after a thrilling come from behind win over canada. playing catch up manchester city remain

two points behind cross town rivals english premier league table toppers munch chips to united following a goalless draw at arsenal. on long winter no problem russian tennis chiefs serve up a new form of the game. but let's start with russia and world youth ice hockey champions the red machine blitzing counted after a slow start to claim their first under twenty title since two thousand and three but big things were expected of brush in buffalo but heading into the third period the game looked up the canadians secured a three nothing lead by then meaning a must and final twenty minutes was needed brought against charges that produced just stopped hitting it five on i'm sure goals to team you talk peace most prestigious when. the victory comes out of particularly good time for russian hockey the senior team have been struggling over late just the year after back to back world titles you blood will see in this parliament no problems and not from

then with russia's. president to me earlier offered his congratulations this twitter account. things up the business end of modest in the continental hockey league seem to be changing every day at the moment it's not a fun car to lead the way after they're trying structure or four nil on wednesday evening when plans to siberia man above lockwood teef the summit. need to go. just behind though after their overtime win over. the list also got a win in overtime. two had come from behind twice but not so and mattered most. to the coattails of the top three despite a four three shootout loss. there with them following a two one win over bottom side in the nets to make the better of severe three on a busy night of. manchester united the kind of for themselves green after

a month sister city an arsenal player on the goalless draw at the emirates on the web it means alex ferguson's side stay top the spite not seeing action themselves it was a game where the gunners kept the woodwork several times on both sides finished the game a ten man. sent off in the final minutes after a confrontation the points city within two points of money united two games and elsewhere chelsea lost two wolves to save the single with an own goal in the minutes to win. the relegation so. if ever to. colin with a last minute winner there are newcastle had five times the spice since all star striker. leon best trick and one block were dark and liverpool's rules three one win scoring twice to drew one apiece on sunderland ten man aston villa one

little. blackburn meanwhile had been hoping to lure a romal deal from milan this month because teams say the thirty year old striker is heading back to brazil and is in talks with this home town club where it's reported he's about to sign a three and a half year deal the former world for poor of the year house had an unsettled two years at the san siro maybe hoping a move home reignite his international career. moving on to tennis where maria sharapova has made a shock exit at the e.s.p. classic in new zealand the russian's first ever tournament in the country coming to an abrupt end in the quarter finals criticism of. the twenty three year old russian out of sorts early on conceiving the opening set in just twenty minutes on a six two scoreline hungary and veteran opponent taking advantage of a slow start in the ensuing set losing at the mouth six to seven six. will be on the plane home number two seed winning champion with me or is still going strong

simona halep on able to put up much resistance in their quarterfinal match up six love six two. to boxing were after months of weight it looks like three belts heavyweight champion bloodier klitschko will take on britain during after all the per word two to five each other last month but klitschko a called it off at the last minute after picking up a stomach injury however the i.b.s. w. . champion has now agreed to face just on april thirtieth in germany as a consequence it leaves any potential with w b zero zero champion david haye up in the year a londoner had hoped for a unification fight to run the same time. and finally russia has had its first share of tennis stars recently but the sports heads are now aiming for success in a new form of the game beach tennis the country's subzero climates in winter well it isn't exactly ideal so they've taken an unusual approach. explains.

the western part of russia is not your typical place for beach status especially in winter when it's minus ten outside and could only be found on the pavement so that the best friends would not slip and fall down however that hasn't stopped in st petersburg holding a christmas ornament. this force was born in northern italy over thirty years ago particularly in revenge on a place the world's top beach tennis players still call home today a resort holiday maker has probably seen a pair of people hitting a tennis ball with a wooden paddle on the beach well it's now an official sport with establishments regulations one that's gaining popularity in colder places like russia as well look at that let's you know you beat it when we started playing beach tennis in st peter's bank we only had four rockets in four people now take

a look at how many people hate the aping many people a curious to give it a try and find it fan and that's what we're doing we have huge numbers of people who wish to try out beach tennis because it's banned because it's easier than making a tennis well fun or not beach tennis is starting to attract athletes from its much older sibling the regular tennis while it's only three years old in russia brashly as an infant stage the country's national teams are already competing for honors on the international scene currently dominated by its late though it's an outstanding results are tough to beat alexander saw did manage to come close in two thousand and nine by winning silver at the european championships. it is not about the italians had this or fifteen years now so they are obviously the leaders well we've only been doing it for three years and we haven't had the opportunity to train a lot in moscow for instance we only have outdoor facilities in summer it's a great thing that we now have an indoor facility in st petersburg where we can

keep training in winter time making beach tennis official in russia. is a major push towards advancement into the masses but will that be enough to make it popular in the biggest country on earth much of which is covered by snow six to nine months out of the year obviously 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 a beach sports center in st petersburg puts on the biggest sure we originally around 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've moved forward and don't need to address any survival needs and what we'd like to do is find a way to do business in the areas of personal interest with all that could together business self-fulfillment and fun to 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 koehler season the russian climates although largely cold can still provide a natural habitat for beach tennis not only in sao there is cities like saw cheap but in st petersburg as well as this. beach tennis doesn't require that much investment in infrastructure where we are the go for finland is just not northern italy where you can easily set up beach tennis grounds in the summer you don't even think big on the other hand what you see here is in a way revolutionary dissipate as burg has had a history of revolutions and this is a new revolution that has happened you see some of beach in the countries northern capitals well said their revolution indeed russian tennis players like that has won out over you get a coffee cup 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

and make russia and major player in this sport. well the abundance of tournaments in twenty eleven will make that evident room on cost artsy st petersburg. much better inside the night side up there with all your sport but if you happen to be on you tube later why not type in r t sport news on well you'll be kept busy for next year though. children now see a thousand. elementary school two hundred thousand violent acts by the age of eighteen. movies television shows video games. twenty four

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