Historical and Literary Sources of A.N. Tolstoy’s Novel The Eighteenth Year
The article focuses on one of the crucial issues of academic commentary on the second part of Aleksey Tolstoy’s trilogy, The Road to Calvary, the novel The Eighteenth Year, namely its text sources. The research establishes that the work relies on various and diverse materials. For example, the main...
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| description | The article focuses on one of the crucial issues of academic commentary on the second part of Aleksey Tolstoy’s trilogy, The Road to Calvary, the novel The Eighteenth Year, namely its text sources. The research establishes that the work relies on various and diverse materials. For example, the main storyline of Vadim Roschchin’s time in the Volunteer Army, the course of the first and second Kuban campaigns, the battles of the White and Red Armies in southern Russia, as well as, partially, the depiction of the leaders of the White movement was based on Anton Denikin’s The Russian Turmoil, mainly the second and third volumes titled The Struggle of General Kornilov. August 1917 – April 1918 and The White movement and the struggle of the Volunteer Army. In his novel, Tolstoy also used P. Tocheniy’s essay August 1918 events at Nezhinschchina, which was published in the Ukrainian Istpart journal Chronicles of the Revolution in 1926; the memoirs of N.V. Gerasimenko, published in 1922 under the title Makhno in the historical and literary anthology Historian and Contemporary; and the Notes on the 1918 Czechoslovak revolt with blueprints of the military campaigns, which were found in the writer’s archive and are either an abstract review of an unknown eyewitness account or the eyewitness account itself. |
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