Leo Tolstoy by Andrei Zorin drama sent as a kind of

sent as a kind of missionary to bring the values of modern Russia to his childhood home town in Central Asia

In a quest to better understand this vast heartland of Asia

was shrouded in secrecy after the Second World War

he was only a few hundred metres away

defence is prioritised over the economy

Leo Tolstoy by Andrei Zorin drama sent as a kind ofWhen he arrived in Moscow in 1851, a young Leo Tolstoy set himself three immediate aims: to gamble, to marry and to obtain a post. At that time he managed only the first. The writer's momentous life would be full of forced breaks and abrupt departures, from the death of his beloved parents to an abandonment of the social class into which he had been born. Andrei Zorin skilfully pieces together Tolstoy's life, offering an account of the novelist's