Word: alexey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sample (an apostrophe to Stalin by the Soviet Union's late Novelist Alexey Tolstoy): Thou, bright sun of the nations, The unsinking sun of our times, And more than the sun, for the sun has no wisdom...
Died. Count Leo Tolstoy, 76, son of the world-famed Russian novelist (War and Peace, Anna Karenina) and distant kinsman of the late, wealthy, best-selling novelist Alexey Tolstoy (Peter the Great), expatriate since his banishment in 1918 because of anti-Bolshevik editorials in his newspaper Vestocha, sculptor and writer, frequent U.S. visitor and lecturer; an Hälsingborg, Sweden...
...Died. Alexey Nicholayevich Tolstoy, 62, long-haired, beret-wearing, best-selling Russian writer (Peter the Great, Darkness and Dawn), remote kinsman of the late great Leo Tolstoy; from a lung ailment; in Moscow. A Tsarist count, he renounced his title to become the Soviet's most enthusiastic propagandist and richest citizen (estimated fortune...