Word: tolstoys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...themselves: frozen Russians hanging grotesquely from a gallows; a roomful of naked children left like animal carcasses in a refrigerator; weeping women combing the piled-up dead as Russian troops hurry through the smoking villages after the enemy; the ruins of three national shrines: the country homes of Tchaikovsky, Tolstoy and Chekhov...
Meanwhile the British radio reports that the Nazis have sacked Gogol's birthplace in Sorotchinsky, Russia (several months ago they were reported to have destroyed Tolstoy's home at Yasnaya Polyana). The house, a Gogol museum for many years, was wrecked, valuable books and statues destroyed. Townspeople who protested were machine-gunned...
...soldier long before political commissars appeared to share and fan it, to shape and use it as a weapon. The tunes that Tsar Alexander's soldiers sang at Borodino, when they fought Napoleon, rang over the Red Army's lines last week. In War and Peace Leo Tolstoy's Andrey Bolkonsky said to Pierre: "Victory never can be, and never has been, the outcome of position, numbers and character of arms...
...Tolstoy's Andrey pointed to another soldier and replied: "Of the feeling in me, and in him, and in every soldier...
Said the Smithsonian: Ainu women, properly dressed, could stroll unnoticed along any U.S. Main Street. Ainu men are hairy and large-headed, with faces strikingly like those of Leo Tolstoy, Alfred Tennyson, or Orson Welles. The almost beardless Japanese point to the Ainus' hirsuteness as evidence of subhuman status...