The Mercantile Athenaeum Lecture Series brings the story of Lev Tolstoy. Son of an aristocratic family, He was orphaned very early and was taken in by his aunts.. In 1843 He went to Kazan University and then joined the army. At the outbreak of the Crimean War (1853) marched to the front, from which he returned determined to devote himself to literature.
Traveling through Europe he learned about innovative pedagogical ideas that led him to open a school and found a newspaper.. In 1862 married Sofia Behrs, with whom he had 13 children. In this period he wrote War and Peace, Anna Karénina and The Kreutzer Sonata. The presentation comes under the title “Lev Tolstoi. The man, the writer, the russian” and the speaker will be the writer and historical researcher, Cristina Rosario Franco.
At the conference life will be revealed, work and the great historical legacy of the writer Lev Tolstoy. A profile of a world famous person, in the context of Russia between the S. XIX and beginning of the S. XX. It should be noted that the conference will not only be a talk about his literary work., but will be faced from his person, how to be human is a very interesting figure and, by the way, Customs details of Russia of that time will be given..
Tolstoy is one of the greatest storytellers of all time.. He had French and German tutors until he entered Kazan University, where he studied languages and laws. In 1851 He entered the army and released his autobiographical cycle, composed of the works Childhood, Adolescence and Youth. In 1856 He settled in Saint Petersburg and devoted himself to literature. Among his most important works it is worth highlighting: Anna Karenina, The death of Ivan Ilych, War and Peace or The Kreutzer Sonata. Tolstoy died in Astapovo, at a remote railway station.
