Out of the Past / Alexandra Tolstoy; Catherine Wolkonsky, Katharine Strelsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tolstoy, Alexandra, author.

Contributor:

Strelsky, Katharine, editor.

Wolkonsky, Catherine A., editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1981]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Written by Leo Tolstoy's youngest daughter, Alexandra, she tells the story of her life from growing up in Russia, to working for the Soviets, to her adulthood working for her father in Tokyo and eventually her life in America.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Plates

Foreword

A Note on the Author

Editor's Note

The Tolstoy Family

Part I. Russia: 1884-1917

1. Growing Up

2. On the Eve

3. On the Northwestern Front

4. The Caucasian Front, Spring 1915

5. Karakalisa

6. From Karakalisa to Van

7. The City of Van

8. Again the Northwestern Front

9. Smorgon

10. The Russian People

Part Two. I Worked for the Soviet: 1917-1929

1. The 1917 Revolution

2. Talk

3. Homeless

4. A Tale of Potatoes, a Pig, and Beautiful Sukhum

5. Tolstoy's Sister

6. The Benefactor

7. In Moscow

8. "I Repented Bitterly"

9. The Arrest

10. The Brooder Hen

11. The Trial

12. You Can Be Happy Anywhere

13. Kalinin

14. Yasnaya Polyana Again

15. Cow Barns and Classrooms

16. Badgering

17. Christ is a Myth

18. Comrade Stalin

19. The Tolstoy Jubilee

20. The Break from Russia

Part Three. From Moscow to Tokyo: 1929-1931

1. Last Impressions

2. The Rolling Seas

3. The Beginning of the Fairy Tale

4. The Sleuths

5. The Dancing Slippers

6. The Lecture Tour

7. One Thousand Yen

8. The Student

9. Fencing

10. In the Country

11. Rice

12. Beauty Undisplayed

13. The Tea Ceremony

14. Tokutomi-San

15. The Buddhist Temple

16. The Sect of the Ittoen

17. Dorobo-San

18. The Japanese Idea of Decency

19. The Samurai

20. The Professor's Family

21. Jinn-Rickshaw

22. The Eta-Outcasts

23. The Miraculous Doctor

24. "Very Sorry"

25. Sakura-Cherry Blossom

26. Advanced Women

27. End of the Fairy Tale

28. How Pineapples Grow

29. Landing in America

Part Four. First Steps in America: 1931-1939

1. San Francisco

2. San Quentin

3. Salt Lake City

4. Chicago and Hull House

5. New York and the Settlement House

6. The Lecture Circuit

7. The Farm Near Philadelphia

8. How to Speak Out and Be Heard ?

9. The Connecticut Farm

10. Lectures in America

11. The Blessed Sense of Freedom

12. Joy in Death

13. The New World and the Old

14. The Egg Business

15. The Flood

16. Freddie

17. A Hard Decision

18. Edens in Florida

19. The Birth of an Idea

20. Creation of the Tolstoy Foundation

21. The Beginning

22. Reed Farm

23. Kind People

Appendix: The Tolstoy Foundation

Publications of Alexandra Tolstoy

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-88767-1

OCLC:

1100429953