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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
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Death of Ivan Ilyich
Preface
Introduction
Historical Context
About the Author
Other Works/Adaptations
Discussion Questions
Additional Resources
Credits
Teacher's Guide

Selected Works by Leo Tolstoy

The Sevastopol Stories (1855-56)
War and Peace (1863-69)
The Cossacks (1863)
Anna Karenina (1873-77)
The Kreutzer Sonata (1891)
Resurrection(1899)
Hadji Murád(1904)

Works by Tolstoy, Posthumously Collected

A Confession and Other Religious Writings(Penguin, 1987)
Childhood, Boyhood, Youth (Modern Library, 2002)
What Is Art? (Penguin,1995)

Resources about Tolstoy and Russian History

Billington, James H. The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretive History of Russian Culture. 1966. New York: Vintage, 1970.
— The Face of Russia. New York: TV Books, 1998.
Troyat, Henri. Tolstoy. 1965. Tr. from the French by Nancy Amphoux. New York: Doubleday, 1967.
Wilson, A.N. Tolstoy: A Biography. New York: Norton, 1988.

Web sites

Leo Tolstoy Museum-Estate
The Museum site for Tolstoy’s home, Yasnaya Polyana

“Without my Yasnaya Polyana, it is difficult for me to imagine Russia and my relationship to her.”
–Leo Tolstoy

The Russian State Library
Images and biographical information about Leo Tolstoy. To read it in English.


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