THE TROUBLE WITH TOLSTOY

Leo Tolstoy

[@antoniolau8762]

Quite simply the greatest author of all time. His unique ability to paint the everyday with just the right choice and arrangement of words

[@b.c.7741]

Great documentary. I love Anna Karenina. I will read it again and again as well as I will War and Peace. Also, i don't believe I will ever escape the feeling and mood that i was left with when reading Resurrection. I love his spiritual writings most of all.. Although I do wish they would make a documentary like this for Dostoyevsky!

[@raysierra4279]

Tolstoy idolized Charles Dickens.he said Dickens was the greatest writer of the century.he had a picture of Dickens on his wall.he said all Dickens characters were personal friends of his..... Tolstoy knew writing.he was most impressed by Dickens.....

[@nathanmchiyengi7883]

So

[@DUFMAN123]

I love his work, and have recently read some of his shorter novels mentioned here including The Cossacks, Sketches of Sevastopol and Hadji Murat. The latter in particular I believe to be some of his very best work and a must read for anyone who might otherwise have stopped after War and Peace and Anna Karenina.

[@alijaved3964]

Great man ,,,thanks from pakistan

[@personalexperience3637]

In the time of covid-19- I am reading Anna Karenina 800 plus pages - epic -now into the 2nd part & I never want this novel to end...with Monet I see the locomotive, now I feel the tremors & the dangers. Feel for Dolly: the truth of Anna's words regarding Oblonsky's betrayal(s)...

[@SyntheticLTD]

war... madness?? THIS! IS! SPARTA!!

[@jamesanonymous2343]

read his bio years ago,,,,don't remember a single word of it.

[@533nicky]

Quite simply the greatest author of all time. His unique ability to paint the everyday with just the right choice and arrangement of words

[@aristotle4048]

Anna Karenina is his best work and one of the greatest, if not the greatest novel of the 19th century, who agrees?

[@aristotle4048]

It's my own opinion to be honest.

[@czesarjoshuaobligado9818]

ARISTOTLE I share this sentiment. Although War and Peace is epic in scale, Anna Karenina is more sincere and epiphanic.

[@czesarjoshuaobligado9818]

ARISTOTLE Les Miserables is for me, the greatest 19th century novel. Anna Karenina is the greatest novel EVER written

[@jacksonvalad8012]

I ADORE Anna Karenina

[@kostyalevin8880]

ARISTOTLE more like greatest novel everrr

[@michaelscribe4827]

Can you imagine anyone taking on everyone today? Tolstoy saw through everything humans do, but still remained compassionate. It wasn't for nothing that www.philipglass.com named the first act of his 1979 Gandhi opera "Satyagraha " Tolstoy

[@felixxxrytp4230]

as for me as Russian it was exciting and warming-heart documentary! Thank you for being interested in our culture! I hope someday there wouldn't be so much hate and misunderstanding to Russia and its livers, buy only interest and respectation. Keep on doing your job, you are absolutely adorable!!!

[@ShekharSircar]

I am an Indian and have grown up reading Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy and Chekov. Hope to visit Russia one day. There is nothing like Russian literature in the world.

[@adnanshahriar4435]

UPLOAD THE PART 2 AGAIN PLEASE

[@streb6]

Beauty of Leo is his everlasting "young" unaltered perception of everything, every moment , feeling , emotion and beyond in all vivid colours of imagination , yours and mine where that his reality, depiction meets and melt in our hearts, minds but leaves a solid adorable impression akin to universal humanity if there is something of that sort one could describe it. We fall in love of our existence , its troubles and tribulations unwittingly or perhaps being one with. Thank you Larry , thank you very much 💪🖒

[@theradioattheendoftheworld4251]

Tolstoy and Dostoevsky made a huge impression on me when I was a young man and I still read them regularly.

[@shadowking1380]

Never read a word of his but heard of his reputation and the biography is fascinating

[@nthperson]

Not well known is Tolstoy's deep commitment to the reform proposals contained in the writings of the American political economist Henry George. The two never met but corresponded, and George's son visited Tolstoy early in the 20th century. As director of the online education and research project, the School of Cooperative Individualism, I have compiled many of Tolstoy's writings on his philosophy of social improvement. Here is a link to the author's page that contains Tolstoy's writings: www.cooperative-individualism.org/authors_t.htm Edward J. Dodson, M.L.A.

[@RemedyUnderTheSun]

I think maybe he gave her the diaries before the marriage so she would know who he really was, who he was in his past. It might not be as dark as people think, maybe he did it so she would know truly who she was marrying. Maybe it weighed on his conscience to do that, he probably would have felt guilt if she did not know. A man is often guilty of his past for most of his life.

[@moshefabrikant1]

9:30 מהי החשיבות של אהבה אצל טולסטוי?

[@hannahxin3800]

"War and Peace" is the greatest novel I have ever read. before read war and peace. I love "Dream of the Red Chamber" the most. Now War and Peace become No.1 in my mind. What a Greatest Tolstoy. admire him...... he is the greatest hero in the world. the hero never dies......Forever Tolstoy.

[@larrysdesk]

A spiritual rationalist who dispensed with magical spells

[@bookaufman9643]

Great Rider but sometimes there's just so many characters. The problem lies with me not with the writing but it is hard for me to keep track of all of it. I don't like to go back and reread things.

[@2Hot2]

Great documentary but it's not fair to say that it was "brutal" of Tolstoy to show his fiancée his diaries before the wedding. On the contrary, it was a noble (if misguided) gesture: he wanted to make sure that she could love him as he really was and give her the chance to back out of the marriage otherwise, which I'm sure would have absolutely crushed him. That said, I have a friend who decided to confess his love affairs to his wife and start afresh, and it ended in divorce. She told me that what bothered her so much was not his infidelities but "why did he have to tell me about it!"

[@badlaamaurukehu]

Temporal acticity noted.

[@dl-q3387]

Badlaama Urukehu lol just stop

[@IsabellePETIET]

It was more than brutal: it was crual.

[@2Hot2]

@@IsabellePETIET "Crual" = a contraction of "cruel" and "unusual" punishment?

[@jimmyrimshot1108]

In my most humble of opinions, one of the few beneficial acts available to a practicing Catholic is confession, where, as the confessor rightly expects, his revelations remain in confidence between him and the priest. Confession allows the individual to unburden himself from sin, and more importantly shame. Bearing that in mind, your confession is conducted behind closed doors and ends with whatever penance is given for the forgiveness of your sins. However as in the alternative type of confession Tolstoy chose, it may well have left him feeling wonderful, one must doubt his love feeling quite the same. Sincerely James

[@sohrabtajadin3402]

BRILLIANT BUT " HADJI MURAT" IS NOT MENTIONED WHICH IS THE BEST SHORT NOVELLA EVER WRITTEN (ACCORDING TO HAROLD BLOOM)

[@Mr.E.Shoppa]

Wow, thank you for this excellent documentary!

[@larrysdesk]

Copyright problems, removed.

[@kennethfordjr4214]

The presenter is extraordinary!!!!

[@owl6218]

Notes from Sevestapol, peerless. Also, The Cossacks, and Haji Murad. Tolstoy is the master of the narrative form. As for novels, I prefer Dostoyevsky. What Tolstoy does with narrative that draws upon his personel experience with war, Dostoyevsky does with novels, also drawing upon his personal experience of psychological suffering, acceptance of suffering, salvation and release from it .

[@bryanakcasu]

both are essential in my opinion

[@susettesantiago5509]

Who are the they in the theatre of war………………..

[@larrysdesk]

There is more detail of this event in some of his biographies

[@janethayes5941]

This is just fascinating! I never read Tolstoy but I sure am now. Thanks!

[@zebereketzebereket3832]

it is interesting

[@irenetull4269]

I think Leo Tolstoy was a manic - depressive.

[@czesarjoshuaobligado9818]

Anna Karenina, in my opinion, is way grander than War and Peace in terms of depth and moral.

[@larrysdesk]

A K is more accessible and lucid for the average reader. Largely autobiographical its concepts were more accessible for Tolstoy himself. In W & P he had to project himself to a greater degree into .other personalities which he modelled on people he knew, but not on the same terms as in A K. The marvel in this novel is his portrayal of a female sensibility

[@icmull]

@@larrysdesk Yeah, W&P is better. I don't think it is less accessible though. Its only slightly longer and is very exciting and I found it hard to put down. Even the hunting scene is crazy good and exciting.

[@zoonpolitikon89]

Song from 2:55?❤

[@larrysdesk]

Glad you appreciate!

[@larrysdesk]

Matter of opinion, apples and oranges . . .

[@yohei72]

Fascinating, thanks for posting. Isn't there a second half somewhere? Can't find any sign of it on KZbin.

[@nietzschesno-things523]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6OzkJyMo7aceZI here's part two for anyone else having trouble finding it

[@money5434]

Leo Tolstoy hated the institutionalised form of education; guess what: Albert Einstein had the same thing to say about it. And it is definitely true that they from it.

[@ciceroaraujo2552]

Great work Mr Larry

[@yurkellis]

Ok, there are 52 of us commenting here.. Lady Gaga is much more popular.

[@larrysdesk]

Begin by reading some short stories: There are Tolstoy books available here: www.doukhoborstore.com/books.html

[@themerryprankster44]

Is the narrator reading from a single volume of Tolstoy's diaries? Anyone know what the specific title would be?

[@grimekitty3381]

Can someone please tell me what the railway worker said?

[@harlandsbff]

He loves the truth. He changed my life.

[@nigelmcclatchey4490]

Magnificent! But where is Part 2?

[@brandondarrin1408]

I too found that green stick that was buried.

[@chinojarjos]

Brandon Darrin you found it then?

[@1siddynickhead]

What is the book the host is reading from?

[@IsabellePETIET]

Le plus grand écrivain de tous les temps mais un mari abominable.

[@cristinawilligs]

the grand grand son looks like putin

[@icmull]

He is.

[@craigpsimpson]

What is the music during the montage at the start?

[@shivainvalidos6873]

Craig Simpson Darude - Sandstorm

[@shivasiva9392]

Tolystoy stories made me cry

[@larrysdesk]

He also visited him on his European tour!

[@cristinawilligs]

being an orphan must be thought, but it was not uncommon on 19 century

[@kennethfordjr4214]

I love this show ❤!!!

[@EMDEEW]

Where is part two?

[@hopewelliana]

where is part 2?...love it ...thank you

[@larrysdesk]

It's there, but if you have trouble, try this: www.larrysdesk.com/videos.html

[@edward9862]

Blocked due to copywrite infringement?

[@felixrian4741]

Really?

[@felixrian4741]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/ioHbqHV-pN17f5o

[@shivainvalidos6873]

Thank you for posting this!

[@tamtaghvitidze4735]

Definitely the best Author ever!

[@ASAPJermz]

No. Top 10 but not the best. Dostoevsky is a far superior, complex novelist than Tolstoy.

[@icmull]

Complexity does not make you better. Not saying Dostoevsky isn't top 10, Id say he is. I find Tolstoy and Dumas more gripping, Nabokovs prose is insane, Dickens plots and characters are more interesting. So it depends on where you are in life when you read these novels and what your comparing.

[@joedelilo5608]

do James Patterson next!

[@larrysdesk]

Your imagination falls a bit short of Tolstoy's

[@vladimirmylnikov8259]

By the way, the novel should be translated as Anna Karenin. (no a at the end) Cheers.

[@kolya727]

@@vladimirmylnikov8259 You're wrong. Cheers.

[@vladimirmylnikov8259]

@@kolya727 If you think that I am wrong then it shows that you might not understand the novel.

[@kolya727]

@@vladimirmylnikov8259 I know you are wrong, but I have no idea if you are an honest moron or if you are simply pretending.

[@vladimirmylnikov8259]

@@kolya727 Well, it is very true that you have no idea what you are talking about. Are you bilingual by any chance? The point is - Anna is married to a man whose name is Karenin. She becomes Anna Karenin. Read V.Nabokov on this matter if you don't believe me. In Russian she is Анна Каренина, but in English she is Anna Karenin.

[@spurdospoerde416]

I think there were no attack helicopters during Tolstoy's time.

[@amaxamon]

There were. Look it up!

[@larrysdesk]

We have often thought so ~