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The complete works of gr. A. K. Tolstoy. Volume I, II in one cover. Complete collection of poems. Dramas, poems, stories, epics, ballads, parables, songs, essays. - with Petersburg. Publication of the book warehouse of M. M. Stasyulevich. 1902 XVI, 367 p., 331 p. Semi-leather binding, 16 x 23 cm. Very good condition, owner's stamp. Count Alexey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (August 24 [September 5] 1817, Saint Petersburg - September 28 [October 10] 1875, Krasniy Rog village, Chernihiv province) was a Russian writer, poet, playwright, translator, and satirist from the Tolstoy family. Corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Father - count Konstantin Petrovich Tolstoy (1779-1870), older brother of the artist F. P. Tolstoy. Mother - Anna Alekseyevna Perovskaya, pupil (illegitimate daughter) of count A. K. Razumovsky. She separated from her husband for unknown reasons immediately after the birth of the child. Instead of his father, Alexey was raised by his maternal uncle A. A. Perovsky (Anton Pogorelsky), who wrote a fairy tale for his nephew ”the Black hen” about the adventures of a boy named Alyosha. Alexey spent his early childhood in Chernihiv province, on the estate of his uncle in the village of Pogoreltsy, Sosnitsky district. From the age of 10,the boy was taken abroad; a trip to Italy in 1831, he described in his diary. Tolstoy belonged to the childhood circle of the heir to the throne, the future Emperor Alexander II, with whom in 1838 he went to lake Como. The impressions of this trip were used when working on the story ”the Ghoul”. In the late 1830s and early 1840s, two fantastic stories were written (in French)- ”the family of the ghoul ”and”meeting in three hundred years”. In may 1841, Tolstoy first appeared in print, publishing a separate book, under the pseudonym ”Krasnorogsky” (from the name of the estate Red horn), a fantastic story ”the Ghoul”. V. G. Belinsky spoke very favorably about the story, seeing in it ”all the signs of a still too young, but, nevertheless, a remarkable talent”. The author of ballads, satirical poems, the historical novel ”Prince Serebryany” (published in 1863), the dramatic trilogy ”The death of John the terrible” (1866), ”Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich” (1868) and ”Tsar Boris” (1870). The author of heartfelt lyrics, with a pronounced musical beginning, psychological novels in verse (”In the middle of a noisy ball, accidentally...”, ”It was early in the spring”).The author of ballads, satirical poems, the historical novel ”Prince Serebryany” (published in 1863), the dramatic trilogy ”The death of John the terrible” (1866), ”Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich” (1868) and ”Tsar Boris” (1870). The author of heartfelt lyrics, with a pronounced musical beginning, psychological novels in verse (”In the middle of a noisy ball, accidentally...”, ”It was early in the spring”). Together with the Zhemchuzhnikov brothers, he created a parody image of Kozma prutkov. Most of the political satires were published posthumously.