Bidspirit auction | “About Tolstoy.” International Almanac compiled

“About Tolstoy.” International Almanac compiled by P. Sergiyenko. Second edition. Published by “Kniga” Publishing House with the assistance of the Literary and Artistic Circle. 1909. - Printing House of V. M. Bilin. Moscow, 1909. Hardcover. Size: 23 × 16 cm. The collection includes memoirs, excerpts from letters, and articles by foreign authors, including “Tolstoy and Henry George” by B. Hall, “Citizen of the World” by W. L. Garrison, “Tolstoy in Japan” by Naoshi Kato, “The Teacher” by G. Crawford, among others. It also contains memoirs, essays, and excerpts from letters by Russian contemporaries who personally knew Leo Tolstoy and his circle. G. Crawford writes: “One of the greatest beauties of Leo Tolstoy’s works is their admirable simplicity. The style, the tone that gives power to great masters and, like all perfect art, frees a difficult subject from obscurity, presenting it to the reader as pure as crystal. It is this beauty of literary taste that places Tolstoy’s works above those of his contemporaries...” Tolstoy’s Japanese correspondent M. Konishi notes: “Count Tolstoy’s literary fame is no less resounding than his moral and religious reputation. Many of his purely literary as well as moral and religious works had long since been translated into Japanese and are read with great interest.”