(cont'd) 661, 662, 663, 664, 665, 666, 669, 670, 673, 675, 676, 679, 680, 681, 682, 684, 686, 687, 690, 694. 695, 697, 703, 704. 706, 710, 711, 716, 718, 727, 728, 730, 731, 732. See also School at Yasnaya Polyana

Year 1805, The (Tolstoy), 290, 293, 295,

297, 302, 312 Yodorov, Alexander, 12 Young Men's (Liberal) Party. 619 "You Sanjt Until Dawn" (Fet), 299 Youth (Tolstoy), 50, 102, 124. 139. 148,

154, 164, 188, 469, 574 Yufan, peasant plowman. 198 Yukhvanka, farmer on Tolstoy estate. 56 Yunosha, Colonel, 303, 304, 306 Yushkov, Pclagya N., 8, 12, 38, 40, 42, 52, 55, 73. 106, 111, 124, 127, 141, 143, 152, 368

Yushkov, Vladimir I., 8, 39. 42, 235

Zakaz forest, 16, 208. 643, 727

Zakhar, Turgenev's servant, 135

Zakharin, Dr., 309

Zakrevsky, General, 67

Zasulich, Vera, 403, 404

Zasyeka, 673, 727

Zasyeka forest, 247, 249, 268, 633

Zavadovsky, Sofya Petrovna, 243

Zhdanov, Sofya A., 164, 243, 250

Zheleznovodsk spa, 96

Zhemchuzhnikov, 133

Zhikharev, 290

Zhukovsky, Vasily A., 508

Zimmcrmann's Music Shop, 658

Zinaida, character in tale written by Sonya

Behrs. 247 Zola, Јmile, 383, 434, 487, 688 Zurich, 184

Zvcgintscv, Mrs., 637, 674 Zybin brothers, 48

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who, though horn a nobleman, had an overriding ambition to he a peasant. As a youth, his world was gambling, wine, and wenching, but as a man he was bent on reforming the world in the image of Christian love. Despising violence, he made a fortune writing about war. His War and Peace is regarded by many as the greatest novel ever written, but, in time, Tolstoy became increasingly dissatisfied with fiction. Longing for universal brotherhood, he was unable to find love in his own family. Famous and revered beyond any of his contemporaries, he died almost alone and alienated from the world.

Such is the Tolstoy of whom M. Troyat writes. But, Tolstoy is more than a biography. It is also a recapturing of the scent, die scene, the color of Russia in the mid-nineteenth century, a book rich in the fabric of history. It is a book that is itself Tolstoyan, bursting with life, ideas, humanity, charity, and spitefulness, love, war, peace, and passion. It is a book about which Andre Maurois said, "Troyat has written exactly what I should have liked to write." One may imagine that it is also a book Tolstoy himself might have written. And in a sense he has, for skillfully woven into the text are dozens of excerpts from his writings. Tolstoy dominates the work and speaks unforgettably through it.

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Henri Troyat, member of the Academie Frangaise and winner of the Prix Goncourt, has had many novels published in this country. He is also a noted biographer, and his Firebrand: The Life of Dostoevski) and Pushkin were highly acclaimed. Now, M. Troyat's Tolstoy is greeted with lavish praise by the French press: "The word masterpiece is not excessive," said Emile Bouvier in Midi Libre; "a masterpiece of biography," wrote Andre Therive; and Jean Mistier in L'Aurore called it a "great book."