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Inspirational Quotes by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian Novelist)

Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1883–1945) was a Russian and Soviet writer who wrote in many genres but specialized in science fiction and historical novels.

Born in Nikolayevsk, Samara, Aleksey was a distant relation of Leo Tolstoy. Aleksey was educated at the Technological Institute of St. Petersburg and published his first work of symbolist poetry in 1905. He joined the White Army as a war correspondent after the 1917 Revolution, which he portrayed vividly in the novel Khozhdeniepomukam (1920; Darkness and Dawn, 1935.)

After the Bolshevik Revolution, Tolstoy was an émigré in Paris and Berlin 1919–23, but returned to Russia as an established writer. Nicknamed “Comrade Count,” he was a supporter of the Communist Party, an honored artist, and the recipient of three Stalin Prizes.

Tolstoy’s other works include the novel Khromoibarin (1912; The Lame Prince, 1912,) the novella Detstvo Nikity (1920; Nikita’s Childhood, 1945,) the utopian novel Aelita (1922,) and the historical novel Pyotr Pervy (1929–43; Peter the Great.)

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A country whose population gets its living by cheating is a bad country.
Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Many men are like unto sausages: Whatever you stuff them with, that they will bear in them.
Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
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