Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy

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Another Russian writer is Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy by Karl Brullov
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy by Karl Brullov

Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (Russian: Алексей Константинович Толстой; September 5 [O.S. August 24] 1817October 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. Aleksey 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.

Prince Serebrenni is his only major work to have been published in English.

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[edit] Dramatic works

  • 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

  1. ^ The Cambridge Guide to Theatre, ed. Martin Banham (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), p.1115. ISBN 0521434378.

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