Leo Tolstoy and the Canadian Doukhobors A Study in Historic Relationships Expanded and Revised Edition Andrew Donskov

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 077662850X
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0776628509
• Author:  Andrew Donskov

Following the completion of his major novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Russian writer Leo Tolstoy experienced a spiritual crisis that led him to denounce the privileges of his social class and its attendant material wealth and embrace the simple rural life of the peasantry. In the persecuted Russian Doukhobor sect, who also rejected militarism and church ritual in favour of finding God in their hearts, he saw a prime example of how it was possible to live his new-found pacifist ideals in everyday life. He was so taken with their lifestyle, calling the Doukhobors “people of the 25th century” that, in 1898, he decided to help finance their mass emigration to Canada, away from the persecutions of the Russian church and state.

Andrew Donskov’s expanded study presents an outline of Doukhobor history and beliefs, their harmony with Tolstoy’s lifelong aim of “unity of people,” and the portrayal of Doukhobors in Tolstoy’s writings. This edition features Tolstoy’s complete correspondence with Doukhobor leader Pëtr Vasil’evich Verigin. Three guest essays by prominent Canadian Doukhobors are also included.

This expanded and revised edition is especially timely and applicable to a world fraught with conflict, distemper and belligerence on many sides. The issues it deals with are relevant to mainstream society’s day-to-day relationships with any identifiable group marked by ethnic, cultural, religious, or simply geographical distinctiveness. Donskov’s book is the first thorough and profound research work on this important subject. It covers the entire history of the Tolstoy-Doukhobor relationship, including the pre-emigration period […] This is an ambitious, inclusive work, and is a wonderful reference and resource on this specific subject.

Supported by a considerable array of source materials, this monograph will be of relevance to anyone interested in religious, philosophical, sociological, pacifist, historical, or literary studies.

Table of contents:

PART I THE DOUKHOBORS AND TOLSTOY

CHAPTER 1 The Doukhobors: An Outline of Their History and Beliefs

CHAPTER 2 The ‘Unity of People’ as Tolstoy’s Lifelong Aim

CHAPTER 3 Tolstoy and the Tolstoyans: State and Church Opposition

CHAPTER 4 The Doukhobors’ Journey to Canada in the Tolstoy Family’s Correspondence

CHAPTER 5 The Doukhobors in Tolstoy’s Writings

CHAPTER 6 Tolstoy’s Correspondence with Pëtr Vasil’evich Verigin

Tolstoy and Verigin: Letters 1895–1910

CHAPTER 7 Tolstoy and the Canadian Doukhobors Today

PART II GUEST ESSAYS BY THREE PROMINENT DOUKHOBORS

What Tolstoy Means to Me as an Artist, by Jan Kabatoff

Lev Tolstoy in My Doukhobor Family Heritage, by Eli A. Popoff

What Lev Tolstoy Means to Me and the Doukhobors, by Koozma J. Tarasoff

Part III ARCHIVAL DOCUMENTS ON TOLSTOY AND THE DOUKHOBORS

Excerpts from Sergej Tolstoy and the Doukhobors: A Journey to Canada

Excerpts Concerning the Doukhobors from S. A. Tolstaya’s Writings

PART IV ARCHIVAL LETTERS ON TOLSTOY AND THE DOUKHOBORS

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