Rare books, manuscripts, music, ephemera…
9th June 2021
No, not Boris Pasternak, the author of Dr Zhivago. His father, Leonid, who was an artist. This is a copy of the edition of Resurrection, Tolstoy’s last major novel, printed and published in England, away from the Russian censor, in 1900. It is the first complete edition to feature Pasternak’s classic illustrations. It was decided […]
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9th September 2014
As you may have seen from today’s Google Doodle, 9 September is Lev Tolstoy’s birthday: But where did it all start? How did Tolstoy become a writer? It all began in 1852, when Tolstoy was 23 years old, and convalescing in Tiflis after mercury treatment for ‘the venereal sickness’ when he completed the first part of Childhood, his […]
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