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Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy

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Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy , 1817–75, Russian poet, dramatist, and novelist. He was a distant cousin of Leo Tolstoy. Together with two cousins he wrote nonsense verse and humorous works under the pseudonym Kozma Prutkov. These works are primarily satire directed against government bureaucracy. Tolstoy also wrote narrative lyrics and epics in both romantic and humorous veins. Prince Serebryany (1863, tr. A Prince of Outlaws, 1927) is a historical novel set in the time of Ivan the Terrible. He also treated this period in a trilogy of historical dramas in blank verse, The Death of Ivan the Terrible (1865, tr. 1926), Tsar Fyodor Ivanovitch (1868, tr. 1922), and Tsar Boris (1870). Tolstoy's works reflect his vitality and erudition.

Bibliography: See study by M. Dalton (1972).

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Tolstoy, Alexei Konstantinovich

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Tolstoy, Alexei Konstantinovich (1817–75), Russian diplomat and poet, author of a fine historical trilogy, containing excellent crowd scenes and written with much semi-oriental imagery, in which he idealized old feudal Russia. All three plays—The Death of Ivan the Terrible, Tsar Feodor Ivanovich, and Tsar Boris—were written between 1866 and 1870, but were banned by the censor, who finally allowed the second to be put on as the opening production of the Moscow Art Theatre in 1898, two days after it had been seen in St Petersburg. It has frequently been revived, and there have also been productions of the complete trilogy.

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