#leo tolstoi

[wmlz]

„Es sind immer die einfachsten Ideen, die außergewöhnliche Erfolge haben.“

Leo Tolstoi

[marichromatic]

Anna Karenina is such a page turner, and the way it portrays the feelings of the characters is masterfully done, Tolstoi is so good at expressing them without inherently naming them. It's never "she felt despair" it is "The whole ball, the whole world, everything seemed lost in fog in Kitty's soul."

All of these characters feel so much. And you're right there, peering into their very souls.

[mistofstars]

My oh my, War and Peace has so many fantastic themes besides the romantic elements (which, imho, don't play the major part).

It's about hope, belief, empathy, how easily you can be corrupted when you are around the wrong kind of people, morals, peace of course and its absence, forgiveness, pride, family...

The romance seems like a side quest tbh 😂

[arcimboldisworld]

Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 - Eternity Playhouse Sydney 23.08.2023

Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 - Eternity Playhouse Sydney 23.08.2023 #electropopopera #musical #warandpeace #leotolstoi #entdeckung #thegreatcomet #australien

Es ist schon einige Jahre her, seit “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812” seine Off-Broadway-Premiere im Jahr 2012 erlebte und 2016 für ein Jahr an den Broadway ging. Nun also eine kleine und sehr feine Produktion in hervorragender Besetzung am Eternity Playhouse in Sydney, es ist die australische Erstaufführung dieses Werkes.. Continue reading Untitled

[wolf97]

"While imprisoned in the shed Pierre had learned, not with his intellect but with his whole being, by life itself, that man is created for happiness, that happiness is within him, in the satisfaction of simple human needs, and that all unhappiness arises not from privation but from superfluity. And now during these last three weeks of the march he had learned still another new, consolatory truth-that there is nothing in the world that is terrible. He had learned that, as there is no condition in which man can be happy and entirely free, so there is no condition in which he need be unhappy and not free. He learned that suffering and freedom have their limits and that those limits are very near together, that the person in a bed of roses with one crumpled petal suffered as keenly as he now, sleeping on the bare damp earth with one side growing chilled while the other was warming, and that when he had put on tight dancing shoes he had suffered just as he did now when he walked with bare feet that were covered with sores-his footgear having long since fallen to pieces. He discovered that when he had married his wife of his own free will as it had seemed to him- he had been no more free than now when they locked him up at night in a stable. Of all that he himself subsequently termed his sufferings, but which at the time he scarcely felt, the worst was the state of his bare, rubbed, and scab-covered feet. (The horseflesh was appetising and nourishing, the saltpetre flavour of the gunpowder they used instead of salt was even pleasant; there was no great cold, it was always warm walking in the daytime, and at night there were the camp-fires; the lice that devoured him warmed his body.)"

Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace

[justwatchmyeyes]

Jeder denkt daran, die Welt zu verändern, aber niemand denkt daran, sich selbst zu verändern.

Leo Tolstoi

[shisasan]

26 September, 1880 Leo Tolstoy in his letter to Nikolai Strakhov

[metamorphesque]

"War and Peace", Leo Tolstoy (translated by Constance Garnett)

[fatherdmitri]

my psychiatrist just diagnosed me with 19th century russian literature character

[merildae]

Books I’ve read since starting T, 2024

Oil on canvas

24 x 18 in.

[petiteappetite]

rediscovery of self

[unleashed-imagination]

Rest, nature, books, music - such is my idea of happiness.

— Leo Tolstoy

[macrolit]

[malusokay]

girl breakfast ˖ . ݁𝜗𝜚. ݁₊

follow my insta @ malusokay btw..

[pterodach]

Since the beginning of the year, more than 700 libraries have been destroyed or damaged in Ukraine.

Russia struck Ukraine’s major printing press, Faktor-Druk in Kharkiv, killing at least 5 employees among the 7 dead & 20 injured. Kharkiv is the heart of Ukraine’s publishing industry. This attack on culture underscores the genocidal nature of Russia’s war. Factor-print was bombed exactly one week before the Book Arsenal (book festival), just when dozens of publishing novelties were being rushed to print. The bombing was aimed at preventing these books from being published, at preventing Ukrainians from having book fairs - for a quarter of a century, the Russians had managed to silence them using other methods, and now that they have started to find their feet, they are using bombs and missiles. And all for the sake of the "great Russian culture". Forcing people to read this literature because of the absence of destroyed Ukrainian literature. My deepest condolences to the families of the victims and to the Vivat publishing house (the bookshop belongs to them).

[wolf97]

"Sometimes he remembered how he had heard that soldiers in war when entrenched under the enemy's fire, if they have nothing to do, try hard to find some occupation the more easily to bear the danger. To Pierre all men seemed like those soldiers, seeking refuge from life: some in ambition, some in cards, some in framing laws, some in women, some in toys, some in horses, some in politics, some in sport, some in wine, and some in governmental affairs. 'Nothing is trivial, and nothing is important, it's all the same-only to save oneself from it as best one can,' thought Pierre. 'Only not to see it, that dreadful it!' "

Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace