Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
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| Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy | |
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 Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy by Karl Brullov |
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| Born | September 5 [O.S. August 24] 1817 Saint Petersburg |
| Died | October 10 [O.S. September 28] 1875 |
| Occupation | Poet • Novelist • Playwright |
| Nationality | Russian |
Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (Russian: Алексе́й Константи́нович Толсто́й; September 5 [O.S. August 24] 1817 – October 10 [O.S. September 28] 1875) was a Russian poet, novelist and dramatist.
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy was born in Saint Petersburg to the famed family of Count Tolstoy. He graduated from the University of Moscow in 1836. He spent most of his life at court, serving first as the Master of Ceremonies, later as Grand Master of Royal Hunting. He retired from service in 1861 to dedicate more time to writing poetry.
He wrote admirable ballads, a historical novel, some licentious verse, and satires published under the pen name of Kozma Prutkov. But his lasting contribution to the Russian literature was a trilogy of historical dramas, modelled after Pushkin's Boris Godunov.
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[edit] Drama
- Don Juan (1862)
- The Death of Ivan the Terrible (1864)
- Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich (1868)
- Tsar Boris (1870)[1]
[edit] Prose
- Prince Serebrenni
- The Family of the Vourdalak (Sem'ya Vurdalaka) (1839)
- The Vampire (Upyr') (1841)
[edit] References
- ^ The Cambridge Guide to Theatre, ed. Martin Banham (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), p.1115. ISBN 0521434378.
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- Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy. Poems (in Russian)
- Love’s Ebb and Flow - a poem by Tolstoy translated into English by Alice Stone Blackwell.
- Do You Remember the Evening - a poem by Tolstoy translated into English by Anton Bespalov and Rianne Stam.
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