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Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy

    August 24, 1817 – September 28, 1875

    Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy was a Russian poet, novelist, and playwright who represented the later period of Romanticism in Russian literature. He viewed art as a mystical link between the human world and the higher spheres where "eternal ideas dwell." Alongside his artistic and spiritual ally Fet, he saw art as a kind of higher science, man's only instrument for a true and comprehensive understanding of the world. Romantic tendencies were best realized in Tolstoy's poetry and some of his dramas, where the hero quests for a romantic ideal, seeking love "that helps one penetrate into the wonderful universal laws." Tolstoy insisted on the artist's total independence from ideology and politics, feeling entirely free to criticize and mock authorities, a trait that snubbed many people in high places.

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