Tolstoy biography maude

          This magnificent biography by Tolstoy's close friend and translator, Aylmer Maude, is now available in paperback for the first time..

          No Englishman was better placed to write a biography of Leo Tolstoy, than Aylmer Maude ().

        1. The life of Tolstoy: Maude, Aylmer, Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming: Internet Archive.
        2. This magnificent biography by Tolstoy's close friend and translator, Aylmer Maude, is now available in paperback for the first time.
        3. Aylmer Maude (28 March – 25 August ) and Louise Maude (–) were English translators of Leo Tolstoy's works, and Aylmer Maude also wrote his.
        4. Louise herself was also an acolyte of Tolstoy's in youth, and during the s she and Aylmer set to work translating his books into English.

          5. Tolstoy and His Quaker

          Aylmer Maude (1858-1938) was an English businessman in czarist Russia, a committed Quaker, and a frequent visitor to Tolstoy’s great estate at Yasnaya Polyana. With his Russian-born wife Louise, Maude translated Tolstoy’s principal works.

          Tolstoy, who knew English well, said that these were the best English translations of his work. This was at a time when many English versions of the novels were being made from old French versions, so that Tolstoy’s name was still ridiculously spelled Tolstoi.

          Maude knew Russian perfectly, he knew the old Russia, Tolstoy’s own Russia, as brilliant biographers in our day have not known it.

          Title, Leo Tolstoy: A Short Biography ; Author, Aylmer Maude ; Edition, reprint ; Publisher, Arden Library, ; Original from, the University of Wisconsin -.

          Above all, he knew Tolstoy. He was Christian idealist enough himself, in a safe and sane English way, to sympathize with Tolstoy’s belief that he, the greatest literary and intellectual figure against czarism, could help create a new moral order.

          He understood Tolstoy’s guilt as a great aristocratic land