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[https://johndear.org/tolstoys-last-station/ by John Dear Tolstoy’s Last Station] | [https://johndear.org/tolstoys-last-station/ by John Dear Tolstoy’s Last Station] | ||
The best part about the recent movie “The Last Station” — a film that covers Leo Tolstoy’s turbulent last year — is Christopher Plummer’s performance. With subtlety and skill he brings Tolstoy to life as the last days take their toll. Family bliss wasn’t in his destiny. His wife, Sophia, failed to appreciate his Gospel values and wrangled with him over his plans to relinquish the copyrights of his works to the public domain. | The best part about the recent movie “The Last Station” — a film that covers Leo Tolstoy’s turbulent last year — is Christopher Plummer’s performance. With subtlety and skill he brings Tolstoy to life as the last days take their toll. Family bliss wasn’t in his destiny. His wife, Sophia, failed to appreciate his Gospel values and wrangled with him over his plans to relinquish the copyrights of his works to the public domain. | ||
=====Love is a Weapon: Gandhi, Tolstoy, Kallenbach and nonviolence===== | |||
[https://thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/courses/new-york/love-is-a-weapon-gandhi-tolstoy-kallenbach-and-nonviolence/ by Adeola Enigbokan BROOKLYN INSTITUTE for SOCIAL RESEARCH] | |||
During these years in South Africa, Gandhi formed friendships with the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy and Prussian-Jewish architect, Hermann Kallenbach. Out of their unlikely friendship, Kallenbach and Gandhi founded the Tolstoy Farm, a retreat which acted as a laboratory for experimenting with techniques of nonviolence both as theory and as a practical way of living. | |||
