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1、AboutTolstoy:CountLevNikolayevichTolstoy,commonlyreferredtoinEnglishasLeoTolstoy,wasaRussiannovelist,writer,essayist,philosopher,Chris-tiananarchist,pacifist,educationalreformer,moralthinker,andaninflu-entialmemberoftheTolstoyfamily.AsafictionwriterTolstoyiswidelyregardedasoneof
2、thegreatestofallnovelists,particularlynotedforhismasterpiecesWarandPeaceandAnnaKarenina;intheirscope,breadthandrealisticdepictionofRussianlife,thetwobooksstandatthepeakofrealisticfiction.AsamoralphilosopherhewasnotableforhisideasonnonviolentresistancethroughhisworkTheKingdomofGo
3、disWithinYou,whichinturninfluencedsuchtwentieth-centuryfiguresasMohan-dasK.GandhiandMartinLutherKing,Jr.Source:Wikipedia2Part13Chapter1"Well,Prince,soGenoaandLuccaarenowjustfamilyestatesoftheBuonapartes.ButIwarnyou,ifyoudon'ttellmethatthismeanswar,ifyoustilltrytodefendtheinfamie
4、sandhorrorsperpetratedbythatAnti-christ—IreallybelieveheisAntichrist—Iwillhavenothingmoretodowithyouandyouarenolongermyfriend,nolongermy'faithfulslave,'asyoucallyourself!Buthowdoyoudo?IseeIhavefrightenedyou—sitdownandtellmeallthenews."ItwasinJuly,1805,andthespeakerwasthewell-kno
5、wnAnnaPavlovnaScherer,maidofhonorandfavoriteoftheEmpressMaryaFe-dorovna.WiththesewordsshegreetedPrinceVasiliKuragin,amanofhighrankandimportance,whowasthefirsttoarriveatherreception.AnnaPavlovnahadhadacoughforsomedays.Shewas,asshesaid,sufferingfromlagrippe;grippebeingthenanewword
6、inSt.Petersburg,usedonlybytheelite.Allherinvitationswithoutexception,writteninFrench,anddeliveredbyascarlet-liveriedfootmanthatmorning,ranasfollows:"Ifyouhavenothingbettertodo,Count[orPrince],andiftheprospectofspendinganeveningwithapoorinvalidisnottooterrible,Ishallbeverycharmed
7、toseeyoutonightbetween7and10-AnnetteScherer.""Heavens!whatavirulentattack!"repliedtheprince,notintheleastdisconcertedbythisreception.Hehadjustentered,wearinganem-broideredcourtuniform,kneebreeches,andshoes,andhadstarsonhisbreastandasereneexpressiononhisflatface.Hespokeinthatrefi
8、nedFrenchinwhichourgrandfathersnotonlyspokebutt