But believe me, my dear boy, there is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all.

~ Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace


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2021-09-22

A query for Russian historians: what was the assumed “normal” stature for a man in this era? Tolstoy seems inordinately fixated - every man is introduced thus: “of medium height” “unusually tall” “not very tall” etc

[Mikhail Bashilov for 1st ed. of War & Peace]

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2020-03-20

Tolstoy spent 1863 to 1868 writing and rewriting War and Peace. In those five years, his new bride Sophia gave birth to 4 children, while copying and editing the full manuscript 7 separate times. A different kind of serial rhythm.

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2020-03-19

📚HURRAY 📚

Found my copy of
WAR AND PEACE❗️

Now to reading the first 12 pages today and each day for the next 12 weeks or so, at the kind and enlightened invitation
of YIYUN LI & .
Won’t you join us?
⤵️
https://t.co/dhpdOZAd3i

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2020-03-18

📚 I recall w/ pleasure when Pevear & Volokhonsky discussed translating Tolstoy w/.
Tomorrow, 3/18, we start to read their translation convened by Yiyun Li
12 Pages a day, over the next 3
months. Join us!
https://t.co/9IihGQ7vMT

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2020-03-18