Writing has an amazing quality: it is not just a collection of information, data on historical and personal relationships, something more. The reader is transported at that time, begins to understand and justify many things, remember the relationship between the characters.
Works affect the soul, the inner world. However, there are authors who understand the difficult issues of justice in assessing creativity or activity. This is what literary historians do. These include Ivan Nikitich Tolstoy.
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He was born in the famous creative family of Leningrad in 1958, January 21. Father is the son of the famous writer A.N. Tolstoy, mother is the daughter of the poet Lozinsky M. L. The head of the family was a famous physicist, professor. Brother Michael also decided to do science. The sisters, Tatyana and Natalya, became writers.
In 1975, Ivan Nikitich graduated from high school and became a student at a medical institute. Education turned out to be mistaken. Medicine did not attract a student at all. The spouse, seeing her husband’s mood, advised him to study philology.
Then Ivan Nikitich entered the university for philology. At the same time, he worked as a tour guide in the Pushkin Mountains. After graduation, the graduate taught Russian language and literature at school. He studied archives, wrote articles.
Passion for emigrant literature more and more captivated the novice writer. However, publications on this topic did not work out. In 1987, the first successes appeared. Tolstoy has already taught at the Humanities and Polytechnic universities. He became the editor of Zvezda, the proofreader in Russian Thought.
Since 1994, Ivan Nikitich began to conduct special courses at the university on Nabokov. The historian writer chose emigrant history and literature as well as the period of the Cold War as his specialization. In 1992, the journalist led the publishing house of Tovia Grzhebin as editor-in-chief.
The works of emigrant authors and works about their life abroad were published. The author specializes in history and literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Since 1994, Ivan Nikitich became the chief editor of "Experiments". The magazine published more than five hundred of his reviews, reviews and articles. The writer created the books "Washed novel of Zhivago", "Italics of the era."
Since 1988, work began on Radio Liberty as a journalist. Since the end of 1994, the writer has become a full-time employee. In 1995 he moved to Prague. The author chose all topics and directions. Ivan Nikitich tells great stories. His narrative is vivid, imaginative, and lively. However, the writer is also a master at finding interesting subjects. In his opinion, working with archives is an exciting activity. You can find incredible things that explain a lot in exile.
When presenting the context, the historical picture looms more clearly. This is what the historian does. Tolstoy studies the materials of the past in order to lead readers to the present day. The author does not have to invent anything. All his works are based on real facts.
The merit of the author is their combination into a single whole, history. When comparing, an interesting narrative is created. The only difficulty, according to Tolstoy, is to make the historical story fascinating. Then you can not just listen, but listen with enthusiasm. Then it is easy for everyone to understand why something happened for another event, what is the connection between the facts that happened.
A unique researcher is able to find amazing information for readers and listeners. Ivan Nikitich became the host of several programs. Among them are "Myths and Reputations." Significant projects The historian created the author's cycle "Radio Liberty. Half a century on the air." He leads on the channel "Culture" the program "Historical Travels of Ivan Tolstoy" and "Keepers of the Inheritance".
Amazing stories about works, events, people open in programs. In his programs it was told about little-known historical characters. Thus, the program about Roman Goulet, a French novelist of Russian origin, shows the story of a selfless mother who did everything to take her son away from the upheavals of the revolution. The final of the program is especially amazing. It turns out that the mother was hiding from her son not only the disease, but also her own withdrawal. Gul received encouraging letters after her death.
The writer told about the poet, author of one poem Filaret Chernov, Moscow professor Sergei Melgunov, naval midshipman Boris Bjerkelund and politician Vasily Shulgin. He managed to collect bit by bit information about the author of the song "Sweeping you with snow, Russia."
