I am one of only two or three authors here who carry the banner of the principle of Art for art's sake. As time went by, though, he showed less and less enthusiasm for what felt more and more like a major hindrance to his literary aspirations. In 1861 he personally gathered all of his peasants together, read them the 1961 L… Aleksey Konstantinovich was a second cousin of Leo Tolstoy; Count Pyotr Andreyevich Tolstoy was their common great-grandfather. Russia, O my Russia, hail! All poems are shown free of charge for educational purposes only in accordance with fair use guidelines. "You cannot imagine what a storm of rhymes rages in me, what waves of poetry are sweeping through me, longing to break free," he wrote in a letter to Sophia Miller. The family spent the next ten years in continuous travel, both in Russia and abroad. Tolstoy recited to Gogol many of his yet unpublished poems and fragments from what later became the novel Prince Serebryanny. 581-605). 3 of the Six Romances, Op. Tired of fighting his many opponents, totally disillusioned with what he saw around him, A.K.Tolstoy wrote to his friend Boleslav Markovich in 1869: "I've come to the conclusion that we do not deserve a Constitution. Before that, in July 1835, he had buried his uncle Aleksey Perovsky (who died in Warsaw of tuberculosis) and had become heir to his Krasny Rog estate. This spectacular farce (featuring at one point a dozen small dogs running about on stage) caused a huge scandal, was promptly banned by Nikolay I (who was among the audience) and remained unpublished until 1884. "It's hard to recognize Alyosha Popovich, eyes-a-jealous, hands-a-grabbin'- as a romantic youth, speaking of love and devotion to his beloved," Semyon Vengerov remarked. When I think of the beauty of our language and of how beautiful our history was before the accursed Mongols came, I want to fall to the ground and writhe in desperation, mad at what we've done with all the talent that God has given us." Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, often referred to as A. K. Tolstoy, was a Russian poet, novelist and playwright, considered to be the most important nineteenth-century Russian historical dramatist. A year later he helped Ivan Turgenev out of an exile he found himsef in as a result of having contacted the "London propagandists", as Herzen and Ogaryov were then known. "What France is moving towards is the dictatorship of mediocrity," Tolstoy argued. Tolstoy tended to greatly idealise Russia's pre-Mongol past which made the traditional bylina characters almost superheroes. Consciously imposed "careless" rhyming gave his poems an improvisational tone (with "an impression of thoughts being put to paper exactly in the form they were born") but behind it there was hard work and much editing. Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy. Vengerov. Service and the arts are incompatible," he wrote in a letter to a very disappointed Aleksander II. Asked by the Tsar for the latest news in the world of literature, Tolstoy said: "The whole of Russia has gone into mourning for Chernyshevsky to whom an injustice has been done..."- "No, Tolstoy, I beg you never to remind me of Chernyshevsky, please," the monarch hastily retorted. His "Ballad with a Tendency" was bitterly criticised by Saltykov-Schedrin while Iskra magazine parodied it in 1872 with a verse entitled "A Ballad with a Pro-Police Tendency". Steeds as tempests flying, Howling of the distant wolves, This view translated into a technique of writing. In May 1855 Tolstoy was back on his feet, but the war was over for him; he instead embarked upon a Crimean journey with Sophia. "Tolstoy's verse is so simple it hardly rises above prose, yet the poetic impression it carries is perfectly full," critic Nikolay Strakhov wrote in 1867. "Tolstoy represented a rare type of man who not only evaded by every possible means the favours and laurels that came his way, but had to go through painfully tedious battles with people who, driven by the best of intentions, were imposing every opportunity of making a brilliant career on him," wrote Semyon Vengerov, a literary historian and BEED biographer in 1903. And there is another thing I am averse to: the didactic platitudes of our so-called progressives who preach utilitarianism in poetry. Historical truth is something he is not bound to. 1867 saw Poems, the vast collection of Tolstoy's verse (all in all, 131 pieces), published, the only such compilation published in his lifetime. Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, often referred to as A. K. Tolstoy, was a Russian poet, novelist and playwright, considered to be the most important nineteenth-century Russian historical dramatist. Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy. He bought some ammunition from Tula and traveled all along the Baltic coastline, examining what was supposed to be his future theater of war, the Crown Prince being totally unaware of his plans. 1857 saw the publication of a large poem called The Sinner. Tsar Boris (1870, Vestnik Evropy) received no official ban, but the Directorial council of Imperial theaters refused to sanction its production. In many ways the local surroundings were conducive to that: the air itself, the huge forests I fell passionately in love with, all this impressed me so much as to completely form my present character. "Tolstoy is the unfathomable well of poems crying for music. I went on training thus for many years, before I debuted... as a prose writer, not a poet," Tolstoy remembered later. Innokenty Annensky saw Tolstoy's poetry as being the perfect expression of "pure love", the "human soul's inner beauty" being the poet's ideal. In late 1840 Tolstoy was transferred back to Russia to a position in the Tsar's Imperial State Chancellery 2nd Department where he continued to work for many years, slowly rising in the hierarchy. "Tolstoy never wrote for children but his crystal clear idealism, tinged with mysticism, made his poetry resonate well with the period in adolescence when the human soul reaches out to something high and indescribable," Annensky wrote. Should God decide to give me another birth today and ask me which nationality I'd like to be born into, I'd tell him: 'Your Majesty! "Imperfect rhyming, if kept in bounds of course, can be seen as corresponding to the Venetian school in painting which with little imperfections, or should I say, carelessnesses, could achieve the kind of effects which Raphael wouldn't dream of for all of his precision," Tolstoy wrote in 1859. Aleksey Konstantinovich was Regular visits to European medics only temporarily alleviated his conditions. An 1831 trip to Italy especially impressed the 13-year old. Tolstoy's poems were appearing in virtually all the major Russian magazines of the time, regardless of their ideological inclinations. Referring to himself as an 'anchorite', he spent most of his time in Pustynka (near Saint Petersburg) and his Krasny Rog estate. All the while, his dispute with Turgenev, who saw the French state as Russia's potential guiding light, was well-publicised. Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy Follow Tolstoy was born in 1817 in Russia. "Back in Russia I fell into a deep nostalgic depression, longing for Italy which felt like a real motherland; desperately mourning the loss, I cried at night when my dreams carried me off to this Paradise lost," he wrote in his autobiography decades later. His father, Count Konstantin Petrovich Tolstoy (1780–1870), a son of the army general, was a Russian state assignation bank councilor. In 1854 Sovremennik magazine published several of Tolstoy's verses ("My bluebells", "Oh you haystacks..." and others), which instantly got critics talking, and also the first of Kozma Prutkov's humorously pompous poetic exercises. There's evidence that Pushkin also approved of the young poet's early works, giving him full moral support. His worsening financial situation and deteriorating health added to his troubles. This point of view directly clashes with the one that is dominant in our journals. In poetry, as in life, Tolstoy is a gentleman from head to toe." Assessing Tolstoy's poetry as a whole, D.S.Mirsky wrote: "Tolstoy, like Maykov and Polonsky, was an eclectic, but his eclecticism was not the result of a compromise between inner impulse and outward influence (that of "new trends"), it came rather from inner poise and harmony. "I don't have much respect either for the human mind, or for the "possible or impossible" dilemma. Tolstoy's sense of humour was best realised in Kozma Prutkov's extraordinary aphorisms, as well as in his own satirical poems. Along with Fet, his artistic and spiritual ally, he saw Art as a kind of higher science, man's only instrument for a true and comprehensive understanding of the world. These two aversions easily fall into one general hatred of despotism, whatever form it takes. Throughout the 1840s Tolstoy led a busy high society life, full of pleasure trips, salon parties and balls, hunting sprees and fleeting romances. No matter how barbaric our rulers are, they are still better than the ones they rule. Tolstoy's lasting contribution to Russian literature was a trilogy of historical dramas (modelled after Pushkin's Boris Godunov): The Death of Ivan the Terrible, Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich, and Tsar Boris. Our press is mostly in the hands of socialist theoreticians. Russia, O My Russia, Hail! Believe me not, dear, when in hours of anguish. Poems by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (dalam bahasa Rusia) “ Love’s Ebb and Flow,” translated by Alice Stone Blackwell (1906). This hobby, I think, somehow affected my poetry which has always had a rather upbeat quality." "Now I'm feeling much better, at least the neuralgia's gone. He was described as "a handsome young man with blonde hair and a freshly coloured face" and was renowned for his physical strength, "bending spoons, forks and horse-shoes and driving nails into walls with one finger." His uncle on his mother's side was Aleksey Perovsky (1787–1836), an author known under the pen name of Antony Pogorelsky. All of his love lyrics from 1851 onwards were written for and about Sophia. It was during one of these visits that he wrote his first two "gothic" novellas - Vurdalak's Family and Three Hundred Years On (originally in German, later translated into Russian by Boleslav Markevich).Tolstoy showed great interest in all things macabre, influenced, again, by his late uncle who "was obsessed with mysticism in every possible form" and who, in turn, was influenced by E. T. A. Hoffmann whom he was personally acquainted with. In 1861 he personally gathered all of his peasants together, read them the 1861 Liberation Manifest, gave money to everybody present and participated in the grandiose drinking spree that followed. Tolstoy's poetry had certain qualities that made it unusual and even unique, one being the "half-spoken" nature of the verse. Сборник поэзии Толстого Алексея Константиновича, в котором представлено 231 стихотворение. In 1864 Tolstoy tried to exert his influence upon Aleksander II to make him alleviate the plight of the imprisoned Chernyshevsky. This list may not reflect recent changes ().D Dragon (poem) The Dream of Councillor Popov H Aleksey, having been awe-stricken, remembered little: "Only his magnificent features and the way he took me upon his lap," according to his autobiography. Tolstoy was a lenient land-owner, admired by his Krasny Rog peasants who were permitted to use his fields as common pastures and given free timber and primary education for their children in a school he built for them in 1859. Tolstoy fell in love with her but had to wait for another twelve years before they were able to marry. Early life A. K. Tolstoy was born in Saint Petersburg to the famed family of Tolstoy. Pages in category "Poetry by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. He was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, an outstanding writer of humorous and satirical verse, serious poetry, and novels and dramas on historical themes. His uncle on his mother's side was Aleksey Perovsky (1787–1836), an author known under the pen name of Antony Pogorelsky. In Poems For Poets “ Autumn Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy 1817 (Saint Petersburg) – 1875 (Chernigov Governorate) Love Melancholy Nature Autumn … Poems （ロシア語） Love's Ebb and Flow - トルストイの詩の英訳（アリス・ストーン・ブラックウェルによる） （英語） Do You Remember the Evening - トルストイの詩の英訳（アントン・ベスパロフおよびリアンヌ・スタムによる） （英語） It was followed by the more significant Ioann Damaskin, first published in Russkaya Beseda January 1859 issue. 1861-1875 In 1861 Tolstoy quit the Court altogether. A. K. Tolstoy's uncle (on his father's side) was Fyodor Tolstoy(1783–1873). クラスヌイログロシアの小説家，劇作家，詩人。伯爵家の生れで，L.トルストイの遠い親戚にあたる。思想的には保守的ながらも，『ロシア国史』 Istoriya gosudarstva Rossiiskogo (1868) ，『ポ … "For quite some time I was under the illusion that I'd be able to suppress my artistic nature but life taught me different; this struggle was futile. ペテルブルグ[没]1875.10.10. Tolstoy criticized the activities of the 3rd Department, and in the wake of the Polish uprising was one of the very few people in the Court to openly denounce Muravyov the Hangman's draconian methods of political repression. Kozma Prutkov aside, Tolstoy wrote satirical verses under his own name, the best known of which was the Karamzin-inspired History of the Russian State from Gostomysl to Timashev (1868), a parody on Russian history that focused on the vicious characteristics of Russian monarchs. According to the author, historical drama had to be "true" only in a "humanist way". Along with Count Aleksey Bobrinsky (future Minister of transport) he started to finance and equip two partisan squads, forty fighters each. I was trying to establish relation between this Tolstoy and my favourite Leo Tolstoy but they are separate. If it fits into the concept, very good, if not, he can easily do without it," he wrote. Poems by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy. He was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, an outstanding writer of humorous and satirical verse, serious poetry, and novels and dramas on historical themes. They became friends and this friendship lasted for several decades, ending in the mid-1860s. In December 1835 he took exams (in English, French and German languages and literature, Latin, World and Russian history, and Russian statistics) at the University of Moscow for the formal 1st Grade State Bureaucrat certificate. In the early 1850s, in collaboration with the Zhemchuzhnikov brothers, Tolstoy created the fictional writer Kozma Prutkov, a petty bureaucrat with great self-esteem who parodied the poetry of the day and wrote banal aphorisms. His father, Count Konstantin Petrovich Tolstoy (1780–1870), a son of the army general, was a Russian state assignation bank councilor. Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, often referred to as A. K. Tolstoy, was a Russian poet, novelist and playwright, considered to be the most important nineteenth-century Russian historical dramatist. Being neither a westernizer or a slavophile, Tolstoy annoyed both parties by his infatuation with pre-Tatar Russian society (which he idealized whole-heartedly, seeing it as an Eastern strain of European knighthood, based on the cult of the nobleman), his critique of the West's amoral pragmatism and socialist ideas, his dismissal of imperial ideals which he saw as tragically flawed, with the original doctrine of a centralized Russia, the vile Moscovia State being, in his view, at the root of all Russian political evil. It was also in 1851 that Tolstoy first met Sophia Andreyevna Miller (1827?-1892), the wife of a cavalry colonel (whom she later divorced with great difficulty) and an impressively well-educated woman who knew 14 languages, at a Bolshoy Theater masquerade. Tolstoy was never in doubt. After the War, in 1856, on the day of his Coronation, Aleksander II appointed Tolstoy as one of his personal aide-de-adjutants. According to Mirsky, The Dream is "the acme of Russian humorous poetry, mixing sharp, poignant satire... and pure delight in cheerful absurdity". Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, often referred to as A. K. Tolstoy was a Russian poet, novelist, and dramatist. Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, often referred to as A. K. Tolstoy, was a Russian poet, novelist and playwright, considered to be the most important nineteenth-. Best Poem Of Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy. The latter's plays had their "second levels", directly corresponding to contemporary political situations, but were driven mostly by the author's historical views and theories which involved the glorifying of Russian "noble men" (he associated them with the boyarstvo) and the vilification Ivan Grozny whom the boyarstvo had fallen victim to.Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy's Works:Drama Don Juan (Дон Жуан, 1862) The Death of Ivan the Terrible (Смерть Иоанна Грозного, 1866) Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich (Царь Фёдор Иоаннович, 1868) Tsar Boris (Царь Борис, 1870) Posadnik (Посадник, 1871, published in 1874-1976) Prose The Family of the Vourdalak (Семья вурдалака, 1839) The Vampire (Упырь, 1841) Prince Serebrenni (known also as The Silver Knight, Князь Серебряный, 1862) Poetry The Sinner (Грешница, 1857) Ioann Damaskin (Иоанн Дамаскин, 1858) Vasily Shibanov (Василий Шибанов, 1858) The Alchemist (unfinished, 1867) History of the Russian State from Gostomysl to Timashev (1868) Portrait (Портрет, 1872) Dragon (1875) The Dream of Councillor Popov (written 1873, first published in 1978, Berlin). And one more curious detail: while the journals label me "retrograde", the authorities consider me "a revolutionary". "His idea that 'violence and suppression of free thought were contrary to God's will' was not just a pretty phrase but an innermost conviction. His unc… Such views automatically made him a "conservative" in the eyes of the revolutionary democrats who formed a large majority in the Russian literary circles of the 1850s and 1860s. Alexey Konstantinovich Tolstoy was born in Saint Petersburg to the famed family of Tolstoy. Do You Remember the Evening – a poem by Tolstoy translated into English by Anton Bespalov and Rianne Stam. The latter, though, was criticised, mainly for being tendentious; many argued that both the main character and Yelena Morozova looked very much like people of the 19th, rather than 16th century. In 1862 his poem "Don was publishedJuan ", in the next -" Prince Serebryany. With her six weeks old son Anna moved first to her own Blistava estate in Chernigov Governorate, then to Krasny Rog, belonging to her brother Aleksey Perovsky, who became Aleksey Konstantinovich's tutor and a long-time companion. In 1862 Tolstoy solicited for Ivan Aksakov who'd been banned from editing his Denh newspaper. of slavophiles, Khomyakov sickens me when he places above the West just on the strength of our being Orthodox," Tolstoy wrote in a letter. The regiment went only as far as Odessa where a thousand men were lost from typhoid. Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy(5 September 1817 - 10 October 1875) Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, often referred to as A. K. Tolstoy, was a Russian poet, novelist and playwright, considered to be the most important Both Leo Tolstoy and Ivan Turgenev expressed their delight at this- on the one hand a personal swipe at the Interior Minister Pyotr Valuyev, on the second, a mockery in general of a conservative bureaucrat trying to come across as a liberal. This aborted conversation, as it happened, brought to an end a friendship that had lasted for forty years. Asthma fits are continuous", he complained in a letter to Karolina Pavlova (a poet and the translator of his dramas) on July 8, 1875. Two thirds of Tolstoy's poetic legacy was created in the late 1850s. The list is ordered alphabatically. My mother's only child, without any friends to play with but endowed with a lively imagination, from an early age I was a dreamer, a quality which soon transformed into distinct poetic inclinations. Tolstoy's uncle (on his father's side) was Fyodor Tolstoy (1783–1873). In 1861, Tolstoy Alexei Konstantinovich,whose works are considered in this article, finally resigns from the service, which is very burdensome to him, and completely focuses on literary creation. Dragon (Дракон) is a poem by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, written in the spring and summer of 1875 and first published in Vestnik Evropy October (#10) 1875 issue (pp. Here you will find a collection of famous poems of Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy. Also in 1835 Aleksey showed some of his new poems to Vasily Zhukovsky, who praised them. Amid the Din of the Ball (1851) — set to music by Tchaikovsky as Amid the Din of the Ball (Средь шумного бала), No. Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, often referred to as A. K. Tolstoy, was a Russian poet, novelist and playwright, considered to be the most important nineteenth-century Russian historical dramatist, primarily on the strength of his dramatic trilogy The Death of Ivan the Terrible, Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich, and Tsar Boris. Another unusual feature of Tolstoy's poems was the fact that, while rather salon-like and graceful both in nature and form, they were full of 'simplisticisms' borrowed freely from common talk and traditional Russian folklore. The 2nd volume featured Amena, a novella, described as an extract from a novel called Stebelovsky which remained unfinished. Poems are the property of their respective owners. He represented the "golden middle", mediocritas in the best, classical sense of the word. "While serving at the Court of Tsar Nikolay I... and leading a most fashionable life which in a way appealed to me, I still used to run away (from the Palace) and spend weeks in the forests, occasionally with friends, but more often than not, alone. In May 1841 Tolstoy debuted with The Vampire (a novella published under the pen name of "Krasnorogsky", a reference to Krasny Rog, his residence). You should visit the pages below. The assignment was rather formal, it did not demand Tolstoy's presence in Germany and he spent most of his time in Saint Petersburg, leading a merry life, spending up to three thousand rubles per month, often going to Italy and France. Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich (1868, Vestnik Evropy) was promptly banned from theaters by the personal decree of Interior minister Timashev; as late as 1907 censors deemed the play "inappropriate for stage production". In autumn of 1826 Aleksey met Alexander Pushkin for the first time. In fact, Pushkin's attitude was the closest approximation to that of Tolstoy. Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, often referred to as A. K. Tolstoy, was a Russian poet, novelist and playwright, considered to be the most important nineteenth-century Russian historical dramatist, primarily on the strength of his dramatic trilogy The Death of Ivan the Terrible, Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich, and Tsar Boris. Of this vast clique which is busy serving its own slogans and keeping its own proscription lists, I am the target. His mother, Anna Alekseyevna Perovskaya (1796–1857), was an illegitimate daughter of Count Aleksey Kirillovich Razumovsky (1784–1822), an heir of the legendary Ukrainian hetman Aleksey Razumovsky. "Art can only be a 'means' - all of the 'ends'... it contains in itself," Tolstoy wrote in 1870, in the course of long dispute with those whom he labeled "utilitarianists in literature". 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