i have rarely seen my father so pleased as when we visited tolstoy's home. he was an ambassador to the and weunion at the time, were accompanied by two black cars carrying kgb agents, that my father jokingly call his guardian angels. [laughter] the small country state had been almost untouched since tolstoy walked out in november 1910, and ended up dying at a nearby stop of the railroad station. up the dusty lane of the house there was a wizened old man who greeted us, he was one of tolstoy's secretaries. when my father introduced himself, the men volunteered that oh yes, i remember your uncle. through the chest and pulled out an old guest book and we all looked in awe at the original george kennan's signature. even the guardian angels were respectfully silent, in black suits a few steps behind. the george kennans shared a birthday, february 16. both played the guitar and loved to sale. the original george kennan married, but never had children, and i know my father felt he was his spiritual heir. my father once told me the one time he went to visit the elde

back in hamburg the set is being created for a new ballet an adaptation of leo tolstoy epic novel and a careening out. it's a coproduction with moscow's bolshoi theater and the national ballet of canada is as good as he read it you know mood over the artistic director of the bush has been invited for the rehearsals because. of the war with agents that with join in of course. each time we ask what next because we have ready and we are open. to be involved this does in this next project of course i'm not putting in the was ideal drawn and of course for a company but from the first moment when. said the next can be added again we are ready we are ready to work together we are ready to care for the new creation in which a bit invest with you after. the . it's premier in hamburg the miers new interpretation of the work went down well with both the audiences and the media. spin this bill richardson stuff and by that i was inspired to use this material for a ballet that us to me represents a contemporary world that might not be in the novel. but wouldn't have been able to exist without the n

humankind you know and we just celebrated that with russia's contribution where i forget that you know tolstoy said history would be a wonderful thing of only it were true well this woman's perspective would be wonderful if only it were true you know top of the i've asked a lot of my friends and we just reacted and you know what we say almost without exception this is sad we're beyond the anger part let it go.

humankind you know and we just celebrated that with russia's contribution where i forget that you know tolstoy said history would be a wonderful thing of only it were true well this woman's perspective would be wonderful if only it were true you know top of the i've asked a lot of my friends and we just reacted and you know we say almost without exception this is sad we're beyond the anger part let it go it's spiteful and then we're going to find out the she's going to go to harvard to receive the i guess the second place participation trophy because because she was a part of this the radcliffe award for transitioning. for transition yes she transition a trump presidency so what we're seeing right now is my question to you and to the world to youth think she is just cosmically organically intellectually bereft of any ability to make the connection of how silly this looks yeah that would be better just to move on absolutely and i wish we had more time but apparently don't even have time to talk about her work. thank you very much live now. back as we go to break cock watchers don't forget to le

humankind you know and we just celebrated that with russia's contribution where i forget that you know tolstoy said history would be a wonderful thing of only it were true well this woman's perspective would be wonderful if only it were true you know top of the i've asked a lot of my friends and we just reacted and you know what we say almost without exception this is sad we're beyond the anger part let it go it's spiteful and then we're going to find that the she's going to go to harvard to receive the i guess the second place participation trophy because because she was a part of this the radcliffe award for transitioning. for transition yes she transition a trump presidency so what we're seeing right now is my question to you and to the world do you think she is just cosmically organically intellectually bereft of any ability to make the connection of how silly this looks yeah that it would be better just to move.

humankind you know and we just celebrated that with russia's contribution right forget that you know tolstoy said history would be a wonderful thing of only it were true well this woman's perspective would be wonderful if only it were true you know top of the i've asked a lot of my friends and we just reacted and you know we say almost without exception this is sad we're beyond the anger part let it go it's spiteful and then we're going to find out the she's going to go to harvard to receive the i guess the second place participation trophy because because she was a part of this the radcliffe award for transitioning. for transition yes she transition a trump presidency so what we're seeing right now is my question to you and to the world to use think she is just cosmically organically intellectually bereft of any ability to make the connection of how silly this looks yeah that would be better just to move on absolutely and i wish we had more time but apparently don't even have time to talk about her work. thank you so much lionel here we have you back as we go to break aka watchers don't for

that's what we love about these paintings is the same as we experience in the novels by proust and tolstoy and will be repeated when we see even to hold his paintings and close our eyes and hear music by chopin then we can completely immerse ourselves in that era or it's very confusing type you know and for threats. by that age was no better than ours today. yeah you know. they had their difficulties injustices and dramas. the idea lies in this era is nonsense. for me to take note for me the period around eighteen thirty and later was a time when our landscape was still intact and not destroyed by industrialization so show up as a vanished beloved when i see even to hold his paintings i see pristine landscapes and chef. this is no vision it's wonderful to have these paintings around you they were painted here with the owner of this place with the landscapes of these places we live in an age where nothing lasts and of course the whole of europe ravaged by the two world wars to his cancer. very quick for it's very rare for paintings to be in the same location as where they were painted thank

may, 1988, we may be allowed that hope, that freedom, like the fresh green sapling planted over tolstoy'slture. >> in his new book bear calls that speech a dramatic and significant event at the end of reagan's presidency titled requests three days in moscow: ronald reagan and the fall of the soviet empire." welcome back. congratulations. >> thanks, good morning. >> the "new york times" said it may have been ronald reagan's findest oratorical hours. why this one? he had a lot of fine ones. >> he was speaking in the heart of communism in moscow to students, young people, about the west, and saying why the west is the way they should turn. it was a moment at the end of these four summits between mikhail gorbachev and reagan at which he was trying to reach out, saying what the soviet union could be, and it was overlooked really at the time, despite the "new york times" write-up as far as its significance. looking back now, that was a big moment. >> you talk about the relationship between these two men, brett, that's what i thought was so interesting. >> reagan and gorbachev. >> they became mi