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Where are they now-the Russian intellectuals who sat at Tolstoy's feet (he encased them in square-toed boots), talked the hours away with Chekhov and listened to first-hand yarns about Dostoevsky and Gogol...
...Think, Vanusha . . ." Memories is brief; its range is long. Bunin was a worshipful youth when he ran over snowy fields with old Tolstoy and heard that vigorous sage (who had just lost a son) shouting defiantly to the winds: "There is no death, there is no death!" But with Chekhov, Bunin was more of an intimate contemporary. They conducted the sort of dialogue that used to make men of other nations scratch their heads in wonder at the odd Russian mind. "Do you like the sea?" Bunin asked. "Yes," said Chekhov. "Only it's so empty...
...Tolstoy Home, by Tatiana Sukhotin-Tolstoy. Life with a father who also happened to be one of the eccentric geniuses of modern history (TIME, April...
...Tolstoy Home, by Tatiana Su-khotin-Tolstoy. Life with a father who also happened to be one of the eccentric geniuses of modern history (TIME, April...
...Tolstoy Home, by Tatiana Sukhotin-Tolstoy. Life with a father who also happened to be one of the eccentric geniuses of modern history (TIME, April...