Leo Tolstoy's Profile |
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| Age: | 79 years old |
| Sex: | Male |
| Location: | Yasnaya Polyana, |
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| Height: | 0' 0" |
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| Last Login: | Apr 28, 2008 (204 days back) |
About Me |
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| I was born on August 28, 1828 at Yasnya Polyana, in Tula Province, 120 miles or so south of Moscow. I was the fourth of five children in a very wealthy and ancient family. My parents died when I was a child, my father died whilst traveling with some servants into town, and I was brought up by relatives. In 1844 I started studying law and oriental languages at Kazan University, but I never took a degree. Dissatisfied with the standard of education, I returned in the middle of my studies back to Yasnya Polyana, which I had inherited fully in 1847. and then spent much of much time in Moscow and St. Petersburg, mostly in brothels. I was treated for venereal disease in 1847, and for most of the rest of my life was troubled by my tendency to debauch myself on a grand scale. “When my brothers took me for the first time to a brothel and I accomplished this act, I then stood by the woman’s bed and wept.” From this point on my sexual desires and moral beliefs would constantly be at odds with each other. Mostly the sex won out. I married my 18 year old lover, Sophia Behrs, in 1862 and had thirteen kids, damnit. Sergei, Tatyana, Ilya, Leo, Marya, Peter, Nikolai, Varvara, Andrei, Mikhail, Aleksei, Alexandra, and Ivan I clearly realized that my biography, if it suppressed all the nastiness and criminality of my life - as they customarily write biographies - would be a lie, and that if one is going to write my biography, one must write the whole truth. After I finished writing Anna Karenina, I decided everything I wrote before that was godless and otherwise garbage. I immersed myself into a full "conversion", not questioning my religious belief any longer, and renounced hunting, eating meat, smoking, dentists, and even drinking alcohol. Although I believed that my family was full of "insane people", so I left my estate to my disciple Vladimir Chertkov so as to follow the urge to live as a wandering ascetic, and died of pneumonia and heart failure on November 20, 1910, at a Astapova railway junction. Check out more about my hometown at www.yasnayapolyana.ru. |
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My Interests |
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| Philosophy, writing, the New Testament. Education and social reform. A strong glass of vodka and the love of my beautiful, young wife. | |
I'd like to meet:Charles Dickens, Voltaire, Georg Hegel, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and God. |
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Movies:Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
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Books:In alphabetical order:A Confession; A Grain as Big as a Hen's Egg; A Prisoner in the Caucasus; A Spark Neglected Burns the House; Anna Karenina; Boyhood; Childhood; Death of Ivan Ilych; The Devil; The Empty Drum; Esarhaddon, King of Assyria; Evil Allures, but Good Endures; Family Happiness; Father Sergius; The Forged Coupon; God Sees the Truth but Waits; The Godson; Hadji Murad; How Much Land Does a Man Need; The Imp and the Crust; Ivan the Fool; The Kingdom of God is Within You; The Kreutzer Sonata; Little Girls Wiser than Men; Master and Man; The Repentant Sinner; Resurrection; The Three Hermits; Three Questions; Two Old Men; War and Peace; What Men Live By; Where Love Is, God Is; Work, Death, and Sickness; and Youth.But I renounce almost all of my work, because it is trash. |
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Heroes:God, who is number one. Jesus, who is number two, but technically, number one too. The Holy Spirit, who is like number 230, but technically, number one yet again. I think my wife, Sophia Behrs, whom I am not sure if I owe anything to. |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| MaritalStatus: | Married |
| Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian |
| SexualOrientation: | Straight |
| Hometown: | Yasnaya Polyana |
| Religion: | Christian - other |
| Smoker: | Yes |
| Drinker: | Yes |
| Children: | Proud parent |
| Education: | College graduate |
| Occupation: | The Greatest Writer of All Time |
My Blog |
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Posted by Leo Tolstoy on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 03:09:00 PST |
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A Fireside Chat |
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| Thank you my friends and contemporaries for joining me here for a small discussion. I just wanted to tell everyone that I enjoy your company, your emails, your blogs, and entertaining bulletins.... Posted by Leo Tolstoy on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:49:00 PST |
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A Happy New Year |
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| Many congratulations are needed for 2008. As I see it, and this is just personal experience, not necessarily a fact of life, but odd number years are boring, dismal even, where nothing good happ... Posted by Leo Tolstoy on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:44:00 PST |
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Women! |
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| (proceeds to open the can of worms)
"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent." - Friedrich Nietzsche.
Woe to the man who falls in love with a woman who doesn't love him ... Posted by Leo Tolstoy on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:04:00 PST |
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Stoli and Insomnia! |
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| Feelings aside, I am having a wonderful night.
I got a tonne of feedback about the spam. Seems I'm not the only person afflicted with this ridiculous pandemic of fruitlessness.
So I get i... Posted by Leo Tolstoy on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:07:00 PST |
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Fiction |
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| Why do I write fiction, someone asked me,
Real-life is more surreal than fiction. With fiction, you have certain limits and boundaries that are expected, lines not to be crossed, and loose ends ... Posted by Leo Tolstoy on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 04:45:00 PST |
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Morphine and Chocolate |
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| could never substitute my heart.
I am so bored, friends, loved ones. I am listening to some old music and trying to keep my head up.
I sit around most of the time, writing and writing, when I sh... Posted by Leo Tolstoy on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:49:00 PST |
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Fight Club |
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| So Doestoyevsky and I watch Fight Club together and start talking crap. Sure, I'm 179 years old, thank you everyone who issued me a Happy Birthday.
Doe-boy and I are going to fight it out later ... Posted by Leo Tolstoy on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 05:28:00 PST |
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Blah! |
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| sorry everyone.i was out of town even further trying to push for Sochi 2012!not really, i was just there drinking vodka and hoping to catch a peek of Maria Sharapova. if you havent been there, g... Posted by Leo Tolstoy on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 04:00:00 PST |
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leo is lonely |
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| i just realized how lonely i am. i decided to become immortal, not an easy task i add, and didnt realize my lover would die, which she did. and all my kids. i have a few of my great-... Posted by Leo Tolstoy on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:05:00 PST |
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