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Delesov wanted to save the poor artist but got more than he bargained for when he took Albert into his home. Albert was a brilliant violinist, but his passions for talk and drink threatened to overwhelm everyone around him.

Hadji Murat, one of the most feared and venerated mountain chiefs in the Chechen struggle against the Russians, defects from the Muslim rebels after feuding with his ruling Imam, Shamil. Hoping to protect his family, he joins the Russians, who accept him but never put their trust in him and so Murat must find another way to end the struggle.

His arguments against examinations as tests of knowledge coincide with the experience of most teachers. They have their place, but altogether too much stress is laid on them in our schools and colleges, and as they are generally conducted they do more harm than good. They lead to cumulative cramming, and they are almost invariably unfair.

The only reason that Tolstoy wrote The Law of Love and the Law of Violence is because, knowing the one means of salvation for Christian humanity, from its physical suffering as well as from the moral corruption in which it is sunk, Tolstoy, who was on the edge of the grave, could not be silent.

The cause of the unhappy situation of Christian humanity is the lack of a superior conception of life and a rule of conduct in accordance with it, a rule held in common by all people professing Christianity.

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Coming in at #54 on the BBC Big Read list is Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. This is the smaller of Tolstoy's big books, at only 817 pages (!). I first read this when I was 16 years old, about to start my A-Level in English Literature and whilst our family St Bernard was having puppies.

Sitting up night after night with the expectant mum-to-be, I read it quickly and was drawn to the tragic story of Anna and her fall from society grace. How different the reading was some 30 years later.

Special mention must go to @fictionaddictionangela over on Instagram who stuck with me through the reading of, and who I read War and Peace with last year. I confidently exclaimed 'we will be through this in no time' which is up there as such truths as 'Stand here Harold, those arrows will never get you' and 'This decorative horse will look lovely in our city of Troy'.

After reading War and Peace last year, I though this would be a walk in the park. How wrong was I? There are many similar themes running through the 2 books; a loving family, a passionate unrequited first love, a young man struggling to find his meaning in life; a love of nature and observations about the fascinating minutiae of Russian society.

But heavens this book is dense. I found an hour's reading yielded 25 pages or so. And in those pages was a substantial amount of detail. Consider how many thoughts you have in one single day. How they veer around like a drunken bumper car. How, if you've had a knotty problem or an issue with someone that every action, reaction and course of action will be considered and ascribed meaning. Now put all that into a novel and you will understand just how dense this novel is.

At one point @fictionaddictionangela messaged to say she was sick of all the mowing. If I never learn the many ways of harvesting hay, it will be too soon. At times this was more agricultural text book than 'The Archers' and I was bored.

Of course there are some wonderful moments - we see Russian society at its most political, it's bitchiest in its response to Anna. Anna, herself, is a wonderful character, beautiful and intelligent who eventually tears herself apart in considering the ways that Vronsky doesn't love her, ignoring that in fact he clearly does adore her.

But there are other elements of Anna's character that are not fleshed out - why does she pay no attention to her daughter? What causes self-possessed Anna to have such a crisis of confidence? This for me was never explained.

Instead Tolstoy chooses to focus on Levin, apparently a self-portrait and a man who thinks too damn much! Consider having won Kitty's affections and about to be married, has an introspective melt-down about the right shirt not being available and nearly calls the whole thing off. Thankfully he comes to his senses and spares the reader some 400 pages of soul-searching.

A massive thank you for Angela for reading/suffering this novel with me as part of our Russian January. I've loved the laughs, the chats about ra-ra skirts and looking like a canary. Next year we are giving Mr Tolstoy a miss and will opt for something shorter and hopefully lighter.

And just like that we are done with April. We have had a busy old time of it. A visit to Lincoln, to celebrate my parents who have been married for 60 years, a trip to York with a couple of good friends

This rich, accessible introduction to a literary giant is drawn from Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Master and Man, Walk in the Light, Twenty-Three Tales, Confession, and The Kingdom of God is Within You. Tolstoy enthusiasts will be pleased to find some of his deepest, most compelling passages in one volume, while new readers will find their appetites whetted for more.

These selections do justice to the vivid prose of a man whose faith was informed by this profound depth of passion as well as solitary loneliness that comes through in Tolstoy's reminiscence of his youth. This is an author who has mastered the need and art of introspection, and that he was able to extract the resulting fruit from those many years of introspection and formulate it into a body of writing that appeals to this day is a testament to the voice he gives to the inner questions and existential angsts that we all at times may feel. If you seek a companion for your own introspective paths into the soul, you may find a knowing guide in Leo Tolstoy.

This is one book that will challenge all your notions of what it really means to be a Christian. You may not agree with the moral teaching imbedded in each of the stories LeBlanc selected, but they will captivate your mind and move you to earnestly think about what being a Christian means personally to you.

It was Dostoevesky that rescued me from existentialist literary clutches of Nietzsche. But it was Tolstoy who brought me into the rich relationship religion of life with Jesus Christ. So this book is a real treasure, alongside The Gospel in Dostoevsky. A treasure, I hasten to add, that's not to be missed. Pastors, particularly, would do well to have both books on their shelves, and revisit these works again and again. There's plenty of preaching fodder here.

Like the aforementioned two books, I took this one (in Russian) from mygrandparents. The book was printed in 1945 but is in a good shape, and featuressome drawings of scenes. This is great, since from time to time you canvisualize the situation and see how the characters look like.

"Resurrection" tells the story of Nekhlyudov, a wealthy aristocrat (like mostRussian aristocrats, his wealth is inherited), in his quest to fix the evil hedid to Katyusha (a young girl whom he seduced in the past, and who became aprostitute as a result of that), and understand all the rights and wrongs oflife.

The book is very political in nature, with Tolstoy explicitly criticizes theform of goverment and economics in late 19th century Russia. It is almostpreaching to socialism, as Tolstoy presents all the evils coming from richcapitalists, who use "the people" for their own good, while most of thepopulation starves and lives in poverty.

Through Nekhlyudov, Tolstoy finds faluts not only in the economics, but also inthe minds of people. He again criticizes (even more acutely than in AnnaKarenina) the style of life of Russian aristocrats - the fake importance theyassign to their roles in society. Tolstoy puts his views in print brilliantly,sometimes through a character description, sometimes through the thoughts ofNekhlyudov.

There are also elements from War and Peace in this book. Tolstoy tries, andsucceeds, through showing the thoughts of various people, to explain how greatthings become by chance, by a plethora of small, independent circumstances, andhave nothing to do with the "Grand theme" like most people would like tobelieve. For instance, in the trial scene, one of the judges thinks about thefight with his wife, another of his mistress, many of the jury also think ofunrelated things and the advocate only cares about showing how smart he is andhow fluently he speaks. This all brings to a false conviction of Katyusha,because no one really cared.

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