| Russian Children's Writers: Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Daniil Kharms, Sergey Mikhalkov, Samuil Marshak, Esphyr Slobodkina, Korney Chukovsky Contributor(s): Source Wikipedia (Author), Books, LLC (Editor), Books, LLC (Created by) |
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ISBN: 1155596323 ISBN-13: 9781155596327 Publisher: Books LLC, Wiki Series OUR PRICE: $14.85 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2011 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| Publisher Description: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Daniil Kharms, Sergey Mikhalkov, Samuil Marshak, Esphyr Slobodkina, Korney Chukovsky, Khozh-Akhmed Bersanov, Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak, Sasha Chorny, Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov, Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya, Pavel Bazhov, Arkady Gaidar, Agniya Barto, Zalpa Bersanova, Alexander Melentyevich Volkov, Nikolay Nosov, Eduard Uspensky, Aleksandra Ishimova, Ivan Vasilenko, Sergey Yeremeyev, Valentina Dmitryeva, Boris Zakhoder, Anna Nikolskaya-Ekseli, Mikhail Prishvin, Vitaly Bianki, Lidia Veselitskaya, Dmitri Yemets, Leib Kvitko, Boris Zhitkov, Marina Boroditskaya, Victor Chizhikov, Vladimir Pavlovich Belyayev, Vera Zhelikhovsky. Excerpt: Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: 10 January 1883 - 23 February 1945), nicknamed the Comrade Count, was a Russian and Soviet writer who wrote in many genres but specialized in science fiction and historical novels. During World War II, his role in the Extraordinary State Commission was recognised by the Nuremberg Trials of the Nazi war criminals and their attempted genocide of Europe's Jews by means of gas vans. According to author and historian, Nikolai Tolstoy, "The circumstances of Alexei Tolstoy's birth parallel in striking resemblance those of another relative, Alexei Constantinovich, the great lyric poet, after whom he was named. His father had been a rake--hell cavalry officer, whose rowdy excesses proved too much even for his fellow hussars. He was obliged to leave his regiment and the two capital cities, and retired to an estate in Samara, Russia. There he met and married Alexandra Leontievna Turgenev, a lively girl of good family, but slender means. She bore him two sons, Alexander and Mstislav, and a daughter Elizabeth. But the wild blood of the Tolstoys did not allow him to settle down to an existing domestic harmony. Within a year the retired hussar h... |
