These qualities are what have made great writers great, whether they be George Eliot or Tolstoy.
The church was a pillar of the tsarist state, hounding pre-revolutionary dissenters such as Leo Tolstoy.
His second wife, Mary, was the mother of the historian Count Nikolai Tolstoy, from an earlier marriage.
Tolstoy, in War and Peace, using Napoleon as an example, had a very clear opinion of leadership.
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Shall Tolstoy leave the copyright and the enormous profits from his worldly masterpieces to Sofya and their children?
Mr Thackara has Tolstoy's talent for painting the grand with small brush strokes.
Auden, and he longed to create in art a figure as memorable as the characters in Dickens or in Tolstoy.
He was nominated for the first time in 2009 for his role as writer Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station.
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Mirren's nomination for playing the aging wife of Russian writer Leo Tolstoy gave "The Last Station" two chances to win an Oscar.
He could have stepped out of the pages of Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky.
Oscar-winning writer Tom Stoppard will pen the script and Atonement film-maker Joe Wright will direct the epic romance, based on Leo Tolstoy's novel.
The irony is that although Mr Lieven contests Tolstoy's artistic version of history, his book also revels in it, as its subtitle suggests.
"I think Tolstoy himself would have been perplexed by all this, but Sofya, his wife, would have been over the moon, " Mirren said.
He replied with details of his life in Yalta his gardening, visits to Maxim Gorky and the ageing Tolstoy, and, of course, his writing.
He would work, with slow but gathering excitement, through the plays of Shakespeare, the novels of Tolstoy and the teeming streets of Dickens.
After all, at least in the first part of the book, he is writing about people and events brought to life by Tolstoy's genius.
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Different translations, say, of Dante or Tolstoy, fall into that category.
Christopher Plummer, who played Tolstoy, is up for best supporting actor.
To dispel the tension, I open with a discussion about Tolstoy's War and Peace, which describes the war of the Russian people against the invading Napoleon.
Her role as Tolstoy's wife in The Last Station earned her a Golden Globe best actress nomination were she went up against fellow Briton Emily Blunt.
He was the most transparently ambitious writer of his era, seeing himself in competition not just with his contemporaries but with the likes of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky.
Les Miserables and Lincoln make it a competitive field in this category, but I think the award history tilts things in favor of the sumptuous Tolstoy adaptation.
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You know, if CamcorderInfo really wanted to write a shorter review of the Sony HDR-UX1, it probably should have hired Leo Tolstoy, who's always been known for his brevity.
And that is because I am a Tolstoy fan.
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IR Tolstoy seems to have been prescient regarding the election.
The story's climax turns out to be anticlimactic, a predictable contrivance that pits the countess, for the last time, against Chertkov, who wants to manage Tolstoy's death as he managed his life.
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Thomas Hardy, Dickens and Tolstoy all figure in the list, alongside books for very young children like The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson, and Eric Carle's early years counting book: The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
With a career that spans 60 years, Plummer's work largely went unrecognised until two years ago, when he was nominated in the supporting actor category for his portrayal of Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station.
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