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Tolstoy: The Man Behind Anna
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An examination of the life of great Russian author Leo Tolstoy, who penned the 1877 novel Anna Karenina.
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A.N. Wilson
Self - Tolstoy Biographer
Nicholas Warner
Self - Prof. of Literature, Claremont McKenna College
Nikolai Tolstoy
Himself - Author of "The Tolstoys: Twenty-Four Generations of Russian History"
Harris Wofford
Himself - Former U.S. Senator, PA; Advisor to Martin Luther King Jr.
Leo Tolstoy
Self (archive footage)
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