The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy Online: New Archive Will Present 90 Volumes for Free (in Russian)

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This is sure­ly worth a quick heads up: Leo Tolstoy’s entire body of work – all 46,000 pages of it – will appear on the Tolstoy.ru web site. Accord­ing to Tol­stoy’s great-great-grand­daugh­ter Fyok­la Tol­staya, all of the author’s nov­els, short sto­ries, fairy tales, essays and per­son­al let­ters will be made freely avail­able in PDF, FB2 and EPUB for­mats (which you can eas­i­ly load onto a Kin­dle, iPad or almost any oth­er ebook read­er). She goes on to tell the Russ­ian news­pa­per RIA Novosti that the “90-vol­ume edi­tion was scanned and proof­read three times by more than 3,000 vol­un­teers from 49 coun­tries.” Tru­ly an incred­i­ble crowd­sourc­ing feat.

What’s the rub? You have to read Russ­ian. Yes, it’s poten­tial­ly a down­er. But you can always find Tol­stoy’s major works in trans­la­tion in our Free eBooks and Free Audio Books col­lec­tions.

And if that does­n’t make you feel bet­ter, see the excel­lent bonus mate­r­i­al below.

via The Paris Review

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Rare Record­ing: Leo Tol­stoy Reads From His Last Major Work in Four Lan­guages, 1909

The Last Days of Leo Tol­stoy Cap­tured on Video

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  • Alexov1954 says:

    46,000 pages? In Russ­ian? Tol­stoy used 23 reams of paper to tell his sto­ries because he had no way to short­en them. And how many peo­ple read them today?nHonestly, I can’t wait. Proof­read three times by 3000 utter­ly will­ing vol­un­teers? I see. Sleep­ing tablets must be hard to obtain in some parts of the world :)

  • Alexov1954 says:

    46,000 pages? In Russ­ian? Tol­stoy used 23 reams of paper to tell his sto­ries because he had no way to short­en them. And how many peo­ple read them today?nHonestly, I can’t wait. Proof­read three times by 3000 utter­ly will­ing vol­un­teers? I see. Sleep­ing tablets must be hard to obtain in some parts of the world :)

  • jessessi says:

    This is a Bless­ing.

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