Resurrection
work by Tolstoy
Also known as: “Voskreseniye”
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discussed in biography
- In Leo Tolstoy: Fiction after 1880 of Leo Tolstoy
…third long novel, Voskreseniye (Resurrection); he used the royalties to pay for the transportation of a persecuted religious sect, the Dukhobors, to Canada. The novel’s hero, the idle aristocrat Dmitry Nekhlyudov, finds himself on a jury where he recognizes the defendant, the prostitute Katyusha Maslova, as a woman whom…
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