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a junkyard. and palestinians are naming the streets of the west bank city of ramallah after those they regard as heroes the choices are causing anger in israel some are accused of being terrorists. god it has 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 and wilson says tolstoy's message is just as valid as it is now and stay with us. 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 i had 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 do you agree with these kinds of rankings 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 of 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 we're now living 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 deer 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 most street is a 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 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 are 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 principle construct more pieces based 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 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 he'd finished and i train you know which was a fantastic success as was war and peace and i made him very very rich which he

hadn't been before he'd been landed and had peasants and it had the 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 just now 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 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 appeaser 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 are societies 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 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 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 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. 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 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 a 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 it's all about to member prince andrew thinking he's dying. and then what it's all about is this great stride in terms of. 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 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 its 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 grounds 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 super's of human happiness so it's very appropriate he should be buried there

here lou 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 in style in this 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. 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 more simply try to love people try to live for others and well thank you very much thank you.

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the headlines here on r.t. russian icebreaker finally reached four hundred people imprisoned in the ice for a week rescue saving through frozen water itself the country's far east coast to release the three trapped ships. in new york residents fury policy to rubbish heaps filled the streets parts of the city center of the llama a fast turning into a junkyard. and palestinians are naming the streets of the west bank city of ramallah are those that they regard as heroes of the choices are causing anger in

israel where some are accused of being terrorists all right up next dive headfirst into the world of sports with a closer union so we're talking about this a a big year for russian rugby lies ahead a dozen day twenty eleven will be the first time russia have qualified for the world cup we speak to a legend of the game you'll see the interview in a few minutes time. great to have you with us this is sports today i mean you know me let's take a look at some of the stories we're covering this hour. on top of the world team russia trying to ice hockey champions for the first time in eight years after a thrilling come from behind win over canada. great expectations when we catch up with all black legend sean fitzpatrick who looks ahead to this year's rugby world

cup finals in music. and a long winter no problem for russian tennis chiefs serve up a new form of the game on some. more not just a moment but let's start with the news that russia has been crowned world youth ice hockey champions the red machine blitzing canada after a slow start to claim their first under twenty title since two thousand and three that big things are expected over russia in buffalo but heading into the third period again well and truly up the canadians secured a three nothing lead by the end meaning the final twenty minutes was needed by dragons charges that produced just hitting five and i'm sure goals to claim you talkies just win. a victory comes of a particularly good time for russian hockey because the senior team helping struggling ovulates just a year after back to back world titles and new blood was seen as parliament no

problems on that front then with russia's thirteenth to safety in seoul president dmitri medvedev earlier offered his congratulations and fiat is a twitter account. the pressure will be firmly on new zealand to win the rugby world cup for the first time in twenty four years when the competition gets underway and nine months time richard run porfiry caught up with former all black great sean fitzpatrick who says he expects his country to break that drought on when the william webb ellis trophy on home soil. thank you very much sean feel time will look in the autumn internationals well it's really very difficult to see past new zealand as they were just fantastic the other playing very well playing other very much of the very well laid the got a. blend of youth and experience. so the moment of doing everything well the very commercial got a real focus on what they're doing and you can see that the weather cline very good coach coaching set up the mine but it's all rises they continue with it having

a break from now until the start of the first day. and they move into the countdown to the world cup september the ninth yeah they're good at. reading the game will look at the end of the autumn series against against wales but other than that they played some sublime rugby but bit of a wake up call against australia in hong kong but it was purely because you know i might if you child was on the field it didn't work out well graeme henry's worst nightmare must be have done cancer all richie mccaw get struck down by illness or injury at a tournament and people saying you know who would play stand with you never got applies to. the level of anyone else we just saw in the autumn series here how much of an influence he was on the game and how easy it was for him he looked as he was you know just cruising around the field and it's a rugby look like he just stepped out of the shell bicycle. you know he's a key player for us obviously and along with richie mccaw i think he could be the best kept in the world rugby at the moment and

a crucial but if they do fall over we have to be able to apply some we saw a nice seven. possible. so. hopefully we've done everything we can of one of them falls over the super fifteen is crucial in terms of the number ten cruden and colin slide from canterbury who's going to target i think support of them to develop sonny bill williams to get super fifteen under his belt is really important but you'll see players in the super fifteen who come from nowhere. it's been twenty four years since new zealand won the world cup on home soil so must be a lot of pressure on the all blacks going into the world cup in new zealand in nine months time to try and finally win the walk up again. after every world cup you know we're going to win the next one. is huge expect you know we expect we will but it's a win and a very top of the lows it's a national disaster. nothing's nothing's different twenty eleven is all going to be

exactly the same as buying an american or playing of england or france and i say. we expect the orbits to work you know is a. little bit to the country ninety seven and one the world cup there was huge pressure on so ninety seven to win the world cup but that's right long may that continue what do you expect the major challenges to come from the usual suspects i think realistically is probably on a four or five teams that can win the world cup and that's not being disrespectful to anyone else. but you know you look at france you look at. i get really nervous about england where they're coming from. overseas the current world champions of africa they showed against a stranger a couple of weeks ago dangerous they can be just the physicality of the game and you throw in a. depression. for three youths for those sort of players in the world class so they're going to be right up there and just finally i mean what are your hopes for the world cup. one who will cup obviously but i'm especially being

a new zealand just sort of new zealand hosting the world cup because i think it will be sensational you know you've got four and a half million people in every one of those people and a lot of people don't realise they should actually be in the rugby is such a religion. the have the best of their lives. and it's a great event combination of the twenty third of december with. a lot of trouble with your books when i. have as much. all right let's move on to tennis where maria sharapova has made a shock exit 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 courtesy of our own twenty three year old. of sorts early on conceiving the opening set in just twenty nine minutes on a six two scoreline hungary in veteran aren't taking advantage of her opponents a slow start in the ensuing set losing the match six two seven six and while tops

of the troposphere i will be on the plane home number two seed on reading champion with meyer is still going strong simona halep on able to put up much resistance in their quarterfinal match up six twelve six two not one. but russia has had its fair share of tennis stars recently but the sports heads are now evening for success in a new form of the game beach tennis those roman cost of reports there may be no sea in sight as yet but there's plenty of this on the stuff. but 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 the ass in st petersburg from holding a christmas tournament. 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 if there are people hitting a tennis ball with a wooden 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 look at that it's not only the city but 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 regular tennis while its only three years old in russia drastically as an infant stage the country's national teams are already competing for honors on the international scene currently dominated by italy. 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. nine months out of the year obviously not as this music 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 look at some of the biggest issue of prisoners 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 put together business so fulfillment and fun to why not russian tennis players like that as one eyed o'barr even get a coffee to 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 and make russia and major player in the sport well the abundance of tournaments in twenty eleven will make that evident room on cost artsy st petersburg. car i thought your law for now but if you happen to be a new chip a little later why not type in r.t.e. sport news on you'll be kept busy for hours with all the sports there weather is up next here though.

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