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Leo Tolstoy: Escape from Paradise

  • Pavel Basinsky
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★The winner of The Big Book Award! Book of the Year! The AntiBooker Prize!
★Rights sold: UK, US, Germany, Brazil, Portugal, Bulgaria, Latvia, Israel, Italy, Romania, Serbia, Poland, Slovenia, Arabic, Armenia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mongolia, China, Arabic, India!
★10 print runs within a year, over 60 000 copies sold! Bestseller: top 10 bestselling books of the year!
★Basinsky’s book traces Tolstoy’s life after his flight from Yasnaya Polyana, his childhood home and literary sanctuary, up until his death.
★Film rights sold!
★Complete English translation available!

Description

  One hundred years ago, 82-year-old Count Leo Tolstoy, Russia’s greatest literary genius, shocked the world by suddenly abandoning his vast ancestral estate, Yasnaya Polyana – and his family. His disappearance on a freezing winter night immediately became an international sensation.

  During Tolstoy’s last days in Astapovo in November 1910 he was quickly surrounded by a camp of journalists and devotees, living in tents, with daily reports about his state of health sent to the international press via an especially installed telegraph line, with added commentaries and interviews with the most prominent Russian writers, bishops, governors, etc. Thus, what the 82-year-old man had intended as the start of his new life as a wandering ascetic became a world media circus involving Russia’s most powerful forces: the clergy, the secret police and the Supreme State Authority, headed by Tsar Nicholas and Stolypin.

  Since then, the circumstances surrounding his departure and the death of the man called the
Greatest Writer of All Time gave rise to much speculation...

  Escape from Paradise presents not just a new version of Tolstoy’s secret flight from Yasnaya Polyana and his sudden death, but a vivid and in-depth reconstruction, based on archival and documentary evidence. We follow Tolstoy’s escape step by step, learning the reasons behind his tragic family situation and the secrets surrounding the signing of his will. These events are placed in the context of Tolstoy’s fascinating life story, key moments from which are reconstructed and explored.

  What was the real reason behind Tolstoy’s flight from Yasnaya Polyana? Was it “spiritual heroism”, a sign of weakness or just plain panic and fear of something – or someone…? Was the flight connected to Tolstoy’s last will, signed by Tolstoy in the strictest secrecy in the woods near the village of Grumont?

  To answer these and many other questions the author investigated all the available literature on the subject including the archives of the Tolstoy Estate Museum at Yasnaya Polyana. The book is richly illustrated with rare photographs from these archives.

Author

Pavel Basinsky


  Pavel Basinsky was born in 1961 in Frolovo, near Volgograd. He studied at Saratov University and at the Maxim Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow. A prolifi c journalist and author, Basinsky has excelled at a number of genres, from scholarly monographs to experimental novels. Basinsky holds a PhD in Comparative Literature, has sat on the jury of several major Russian literary prizes, such as the Russian Booker, the Alexander Solzhenitsyn Prize and the Yasnaya Polyana Prize, and is the Cultural Editor of Rossiiskaia Gazeta. He is married with two children and lives in Moscow. Pavel Basinsky’s book Leo Tolstoy: Escape from Paradise, came out in July 2010 and since then has been reprinted 10 times. According to sales figures from some of the largest Russian bookshops Escape from Paradise ranks among the top ten most popular books of the year 2010.

Awards:
  2010 – The Big Book Award
  2010 – Book of the Year
  2008 – Shortlisted for the Big Book Award
  1998 – The AntiBooker Prize Ray of Light Award for literary criticism

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