Russia is famous all over the world not only for its production facilities, but also for its great cultural values. Three talented writers, united under one name: Leo Tolstoy, Alexei Tolstoy and another Alexei Tolstoy, had a huge influence on the formation of world classical literature. A brief biography of each of these authors is filled with emotions and suffering, selected and most striking facts from the life of the creators were the basis of some creations.
Some sources indicate that Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin and Leo Tolstoy were relatives. Their great-grandmothers were sisters. Ignorant readers sometimes mistakenly consider Alexei the brother of Leo. This is not true: although they bore the same surname and middle name - they were born at different times and in different places.
The biography of Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy also attracts literary scholars for its tragedy and magnificent creative period. However, this article will discuss the third of the clan of great writers. About who is known to everyone from early childhood on the work “The Golden Key, or The Adventures of Pinocchio” - by Alexei Nikolaevich Tolstoy. He is known to all as a subtle lyricist, historical novelist and playwright.
The biography of Alexei Tolstoy
, who is the author of the famous works of Aelit, The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin, Walking through Pain, and others, begins in the late 19th century, namely in January 10, 1883 (December 29, according to the old style). It was on this day in the city of Nikolaevsk, before the Samara province, that the author of The Golden Key, or The Adventures of Pinocchio, was born. It is worth noting that the biography of Alexei Tolstoy is littered with the smoke of battles and saturated with the smell of gunpowder - the First World War, revolutions and the Great Patriotic War left a deep imprint not only on the writer's life, but also on his work. At a difficult time for the people, the writer acts as a comedian: with sarcasm and humor ridicules human vices in his books Impure Force, Killer Whale, and others. As a
war correspondent, the famous author goes through this period and in 1917 the
February Revolution overtakes him in Europe.
It was then that a historical theme came into the work of Alexei Nikolayevich Tolstoy. After the February bloodshed, the October Revolution sets in , which the writer does not want to understand or accept. The result of this position is emigration with his family to Europe. Later, after returning to his homeland, the Russian writer will talk about this as a difficult and difficult time. It was here, in native birches, in 1928 that the first two parts of the “Walking through the agony” trilogy were completed.
The biography of Alexei Tolstoy is riddled with events of the Great Patriotic War. It was the pain and tears of the people that prompted the writer to create numerous brilliant works, which, alas, were dramatic: the dilogy “Ivan the Terrible”, three volumes, unfortunately, of the unfinished novel “Peter I”, the third concluding part of “Going through the Pain” , “I Call for Hate,” and many others.
At the same time, the author writes funny fairy tales, where morality is deeply hidden: “The Golden Key, or The Adventures of Pinocchio”, “Magpies,” and others.
Not accepting the revolution, choosing emigration, but eventually returning to the USSR forever, the author was favored by the Bolsheviks, who did not skimp on gifts and letters for the writer. Fantastic adventures and fairy tales, military stories and dramatic novels, life away from the motherland and night under the whistle of bullets, a huge estate and beloved family, fearless and immortal heroes of works and painful death from cancer, black and white - these are the biographies of Alexei Tolstoy, the son of Count Nikolai Tolstoy. A huge number of the author’s works were filmed, and the plays are staged to this day. More than fifty works, millions of copies and worldwide fame - these are the remains of the descendants of the famous writer.
It is the realities of the life of the Slavic people described in the works of Alexei Tolstoy that allowed the world to take a fresh look at Russia and its neighbors.