 |
Leo
N. Tolstoy's Centennial Festival, 1910-2010
Friday October 22
to Sunday October 24, 2010 City of Long Beach,
California — 4 Locations. Theme: Tolstoy in Films:
How Hollywood Taught America about Tolstoy. Guest:
Vladimir I.
Tolstoy, Director, The State Memorial
and Natural Preserve Leo Tolstoy Museum-Estate "Yasnaya
Polyana", Tula province, Russian
Federation; great-great-grandson of Lev N.
Tolstoy |
| Events, Locations |
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| Day |
Time |
Event |
Location |
Cost |
| Friday, October 22 | 8:30
am - 5:30 pm |
Conference |
Pyramid Annex Conference Center, California-State University - Long Beach, Aetherton St & Merriam Way, 2nd floor. | FREE |
| Saturday,
October 23 |
9 am - 4 pm |
Conference |
Pyramid Annex Conference Center, California-State University - Long Beach, Aetherton St & Merriam Way, 2nd floor. | FREE |
| Saturday, October 23 | 6 pm - 9 pm |
Russian Dinner |
Unitarian
Church
Hall, 5450
Atherton Street, Long Beach |
$50 |
| Sunday, October 24 | 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Brunch |
Keesal
Young & Logan Dining Hall, 400 Oceangate, Long
Beach |
$15 |
| Sunday, October 24 | 1:30
pm - 3:30 pm |
The
Last Station |
The Art
Theatre Of Long Beach, 2025
East 4th Street |
$10 |
Download PDF of Program. Download Festival Flyer — JPG — DOCX
| Friday, October
22, 2010 |
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| 8:30 - 9:15 am |
Breakfast |   |
| 9:15 -
10:00 am |
Introductions
|
|
| 10:00-10:30 am |
Alex Yahontov: L.N. Tolstoy
and the Film Industry: Filming the novel Anna Karnenina in
1921 (retitled: Love) |
|
| 10:30-12:05 am |
Film: Anna Karenina
(1935) with Greta Garbo |
|
| 12:05-1:15 pm |
Lunch |   |
| 1:15-2:00 pm |
Discussion |
|
| 2:00-4:10 pm |
Film:
Anna Karenina
(1967), Russian with Tatyana Samoylova |
|
| 4:10-4:45 pm |
Discussion, compare, contrast films | |
| 4:45-5:00 pm |
Film excerpt: Anna Karenina (1972),
Russian ballet with Maya Plisetskaya |
|
| 5:00-5:30 pm |
Alex Yahontov: Concluding Remarks | |
| Saturday, October 23, 2010 | ||
| 8:30-9:15 am |
Breakfast |   |
| 9:15-9:45 am |
Greetings: Vladimir I. Tolstoy | |
| 9:45-10:00 am |
Howard Schefski: Tolstoy
Biography (Part 1) |
|
| 10:00-10:50 am |
Film: Leo Tolstoy: Living Genius (2010) | |
| 10:50-11:00
am |
Howard Schefski: Tolstoy
Biography (Part II) |
|
| 11:00-11:15 am |
Andrei Conovaloff: Tolstoy
and Russian Sectarians |
|
| 11:15-11:30 am |
Alex Yahontov: War and Peace
(1956), director Vidor |
  |
| 11:30-12:00 am |
Excerpt: War and Peace (1956),
peace focus. |
|
| Noon-1:15 pm |
Lunch | |
| 1:15-1:30 pm |
Alex Yahontov: Introduction to War and Peace (1965), Russian, director: Bondarchuk | |
| 1:30-1:50 pm |
Alex Yahontov: Documentary of
the making of War and
Peace (1965) by daughter Natalia
Bondarchuk. |
|
| 1:50-2:20 pm |
Excerpts: War and Peace (1965) , war focus | |
| 2:20-3:15 pm |
Discuss, compare, contrast | |
| 3:15-4:15 pm |
Tolstoys Reading Tolstoy |  |
| 4:30-5:00 pm |
Announcment of Sunday events.
Exhibit of Tolstoy paintings by Eugene Rebrov (right) |
|
| 5:00 pm |
Closing of "Leo Tolstoy’s Centennial Festival" | |
| 6:30 pm |
Russian Banquet at Unitarian
Church Hall. Auction of Rebrov's paintings |
|
| Sunday, October 24, 2010 | ||
| 10:00-Noon |
Brunch hosted by Library Foundation, at Keesal Young & Logan Dining Hall, 400 Oceangate, Long Beach |  |
| 1:30-3:30 pm |
Film: The Last Station
(2009), at The Art Theatre Of Long Beach. Discussion with Vladimir Tolstoy. |
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Sponsors
- Sochi-Long Beach Sister City Association — Richard Maderia, phone: 562-595-6042
- Department
of
Romance, German, Russian Languages and Literatures,
California State University-Long Beach — Dr.
Harold Schefski, phone: 562-985-8525
Goals
- Support
the Tolstoy Museum Estate at Yasnaya Polyana, Tula Province,
Russian Federation.
- Honored guest is Sergey I. Tolstoy, Director.
- Fund-raising Russian dinner, $50/plate, Unitarian Church,
Long Beach, Saturday evening.
- Bring
scholars, students and the public together to share knowledge
- Show and discuss the films which introduced Tolstoy to the American public
- Anna Karenina (1921,
1935, 1967, 1972)
- Leo Tolstoy: Living Genious
(2010)
- War and Peace (1956,
1965)
- The Last Station (2009)
In the News
- 2010
Leo Tolstoy's Centennial Festival UPDATE, Sochi - Long
Beach Sister Cities Association
- "Leo N. Tolstoy's Centennial Festival, 1910-2010" event flyer — JPG — DOCX
- RGRLL:
Leo N. Tolstoy’s Centennial Festival 1910 – 2010, News
& Events, College of Libedral Arts, CSULB
- Events calendar, California, Russian Life, July-August, 2010.
- Leo N. Tolstoy's Centennial Festival , Russian Literary Festival Web site, Long Beach CA
- Tolstoy Festival Coming to Long Beach, Sochi - Long Beach Sister Cities Association, Turkish-North American Business Alliance, portfoliolab, August 29, 2009.
Tolstoy Centennial Events Around the World
- 2008 — Leo
Nikolajevic
Tolstoi:
'Ich kann nicht schweigen!' Gedanken gegen Gewalt und Krieg
— Leo
Nikolajevic
Tolstoy
: 9 September 1828-20 November 1910; "I Cannot Be Silent!" -
Reflections against Violence and War - Exhibit, Gandhi
Information Center, Gandhi-Informations-Zentrum e.V., Postfach
(P/O Box) 210109, 10501 Berlin,
Germany.
- Leo
Tolstoy : 1828-1910 : The Centennial Anniversary,
website by Becker
Film Group, Wahroonga,
New South Wales, Australia. The
Last Station, offical website.
- Death of
Tolstoy: Astapovo Station 1910, website by Dr.
William Nickell, Literature Department, University of
California, Santa Cruz,
California, USA.
- 2010 January 6 — The Guardian, London, United Kingdom.
- There's more to Tolstoy than War and Peace
- Leo Tolstoy: the forgotten genius?
- Is
Tolstoy the greatest writer of all time?
- 2010 January 14 — Android
Karenina to retool Tolstoy for his centenary, The
Guardian, London,
United Kingdom.
- 2010 February 11 — Tolstoy
and Shakespeare (Centennial comments on a very famous feud,
with a sideways glance at Bernard Shaw), College of Arts
and Letters, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA..
- 2010 March 4-7 — The
Realm
of Darkness (1886), play based on "The Power of
Darkness" by Leo Tolstoy, La MaMa Ellen Stewart Theater, New
York, New York, USA..
- March 1 — Lang
Students
Tackle
Tolstoy
with
La
Mama
Production
Don’t
Miss
the
Realm
of
Darkness
March
4-7, The New School News, New York.
- 2010 April 25 — Legacy
of Lev N. Tolstoy to the World, by Koozma J. Tarasoff,
season opening of The Doukhobor Discovery Centre, Castlegar, British Columbia, Canada.
- 2010 April 27 — Tolstoy’s
legacy invoked at museum opening, Doukhobor Discovery
Centre, Castlegar, British
Columbia, Canada.
- 2010 May 1 — Book: The Death of Tolstoy: Russia on the
Eve, Astapovo Station, 1910, Cornell
University Press , Amazon.com,
search
for reviews.
- 2010 July 14 — Exhibit: "Lev
Nikolaevich Tolstoy, 1828-1910; 1910: The Last Year, The
Final Journey", Regenstein Library, Center for East
European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, University of Chicago,
Illinois, USA.
- 2010 July 19 — Exhibits
on “Tolstoy’s Final Journey” and “Gulag Art” at Regenstein
Library, Now through December, CEERES eBulletin.
- 2010 August 20-22 — “The
very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid
prejudice.”, symposium at Boston University observing
the legacies of Mark Twain and Leo Tolstoy on the centennial
of their passing. Massachusetts, USA.
- 2010 August 28 to Jan 29 2011 — bilingual exhibition: "Leo
Tolstoy
and the Doukhobors - Conscientious Objection : Commemorating
the 100th death Anniversary of the Russian writer Leo
Tolstoy". Announcement
flyer. Peace Gallery im Anti-Kriegs-Museum, Brüsseler
Str. 21, 13353, Berlin,
Germany.
- 2010 August — My Life:
Sofia Andreevna Tolstova, book edited by Andrew Donskov,
translated by John Woodsworth and Arkadi Klioutchanski.
University of Ottawa Press, Ottawa,
Canada. 1192 pages.
- 2010 August 15 — Proms
Literary Festival - Tolstoy, Royal College of Music, BBC
Radio 3, United Kingdom.
- 2010 September — The USCC Russian Liason Committee of
Canadain Doukhobors leaves from British Columbia to Yasnaya
Polyana, Russia, for the 100th anniversary of the passing of
their great benefactor. The 6 delegates (Fred & Elisaveta
Makortoff, Paul Konkin, Peter Demoscoff, Hanna Hadikin, and
Lenard Voykin) will also visit Doukhobors resettled from the
Caucasus in Russia.
- 2010 September 16 - November 17— "Tribute
to Tolstoy: Commemorating the Century of his Death", 10
evenings, 4 films (War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Kreutzer
Sonata, The Last Station), University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA..
- October 6 — Film
Series honors Tolstoy, Arizona Daily Wildcat. Films
"Anna Karenina" and "The Last Station" hosted by Department
of Russian and Slavic Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA..
- 2010 September 22-24 — "Lev Tolstoy (Centenary): Peace, War and Politics," University of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada. — Poster in PDF 16MB and JPG 111K
- UFV celebrates Tolstoy’s contribution to literature and world peace (Sept. 14 press release).
- 'Lev
Tolstoy: Peace, War and Politics' — A UFV Symposium, Clarion Journal. Other
news articles.
- Video
of presentations. 3.5 hours (Windows Media Player
format). 2 papers online. Moderator: Scott Fast.
- Alan Cameron: "War/Peace in Tolstoy’s Writings" (video start at 0:02 minutes)
- Ron Dart: "Tolstoy, the Nobel Peace Prize and Gandhi" (0:47 min)
- Larry
Ewashen: "Tolstoy
and the Doukhobors" (1:17)
- Father Micheal Gillis: "Tolstoy and the Orthodox Church, Some Reflections" (2:05 )
- Brad Jersak: "Tolstoy
and the Mennonites" (2:43)
- Larissa
Horne: "Tolstoy and the Russian Peace Tradition"
(3:23)
- 2010 September 27 — Tolstoy
cleared for take-off, The Moscow News, Moscow, Russian
Federation.
- 2010 October 1-2 — "Tolstoy,
Live in Seoul", The International Tolstoy Conference at
Seoul 2010, Korean Association of Russists & Institute of
Russian and CIS Studies, Korea University, Korea.
- 2010 October 2 — Revered
in the West, Considered Extremist at Home, The Epoch
Times, New York, New York, USA.
- 2010 October 13-17 Lev Tolstoy, Life and Literature in a Visual Context, Curators: Thomas Werner and Inessa Medzhibovskaya, Thomas Werner Gallery, New York, New York, USA.
- Tolstoy in Photography and Media/ Presentation for the Opening of Curated Exhibit
- Aliosha
Gorskok: A Contemporary Interpretation of Lev Tolstoy
(2 photos), Exhibition Opening
- Aliosha
Gorshok: A Contemporary Interpretation of Lev Tolstoy
(24 photos)
- Aliosha
Gorshok: A Contemporary Interpretation of Lev Tolstoy
(17 photos)
- 2010 October 14-17 — Tolstoy in the Twenty-First Century, International Symposium, The New School for Liberal Arts, Eugene Lang College , New York City, New York, USA.
- A Year For Tolstoy: The New School Sets Date for International Conference
- October 16 — Program: Tolstoy in the 21st Century: International Symposium, Tishman Auditorium, The New School.
- Panel
Discussion: Tolstoy in the Public Sphere (2 photos,
Thomas Werner Projects), Tishman Auditorium,
- October 16-30 — Ealing Autmn
Festival, Ealing, Greater London, United Kingdom.
15-day Complete Live Reading of 'War and Peace', Russian Supper Weekends, and 4 films: - August 9 — The 1st Ealing Autumn Festival to launch in October…
- Septembger 14 Russians come to first Ealing Autumn Festival, Ealing Gazette
- October 17 — War & Peace (1956) Film
- October 24 — War & Peace (1968) Film
- October 27 — Anna Karenina (1935) Film
- October 29 — War & Peace – 1943 Prokofiev opera on
Film
- 2010 October 22-24 — Leo
N. Tolstoy's Centennial Festival, 3rd Festival of the
Greatest Russian Literary Treasures, Sochi-Long Beach Sister
City Association and California State University, Long Beach, California, USA.
- 2010 October 26 - 31 — Tolstoy and
Chekhov in North America's UNESCO City of Literature, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.
- October 26 - 31 — Exhibition of “Tolstoy” by Mauricio Lasansky, Richie Ballroom, Iowa Memorial Union, University of Iowa Museum of Art.
- October 27-20 — Public Reading of Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Downtown Fountain.
- October 30 — Films: War and Peace (1956), Anna
Karenina (1935), Iowa City Public Library.
- 2010 November — Release of documentary "Leo Tolstoy: living genius" (Лев Толстой: Живой гений), the real story of the last two years of Tolstoy's life, death, funeral, and national mourning; from newsreel stored in the Russian State Archive of Cinema-Documentary photographs (RGAKFD, Krasnogorsk, Russian Federation).
- "К
100-летию Льва Толстого обновили кинохронику его жизни"
(For the 100th anniversary of Leo Tolstoy are updated
chronicles of his life) NewsTube.ru (1 min. TV video news).
- 2010 November 7 — The
Green
Stick:
Centenary
Spiritual
Tribute
to
Lev
Nikolaevitch
Tolstoy, Castlegar, Brisitch
Columbia, Canada.
- 10:30 am — Spiritual Moleniye — USCC Brilltiant Cultural Centre
- 1:30 pm — Peace Cafe — Mir Centre for Peace, Selkirk College
- 2010 November 20 — 100
Years after Death Tolstoy Still a Brand, RussiaToday, Moscow. Correspondent:
Oksana Boyko. English language news video, 3:19 minutes.
Inteviews at Yasnaya Polyana with Valdimir Tolstoy, and Alfred
and Elaine Podovinikoff (resident Doukhobors).
- 2010 November 20-25 — "Leo
Tolstoy and the Move of the Epochs: the Philosophical,
Religious and Moral Aspects of the Heritage of the Thinker
and Writer" (DOC file), International Leo Tolstoy Forum.
To be held at 5 locations, Russian
Federation:
- Leo Tolstoy Memorial “Astapovo”, “Lev Tolstoy” railroad
station, Lipetsk region
- Museum and Estate of Leo Tolstoy “Yasnaya Poliana”, Tula province.
- "Tolstoy" State Pedagogical University, Tula province.
- House of Nationalities, Moscow.
- State Museum of Leo Tolstoy, Moscow.
- 2010 November 26 —Susannah Fullerton: "Love
and War in Leo Tolstoy’s Life and Novels", State Library
of Queensland, Auditorium 2, South Bank, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
- 2011 January 6-9 — "When
the world began to do without Leo Tolstoy" (PDF 8.6MB,
page 3), American Association of Teachers of Slavic &
Eastern European Languages (AATSEEL) Conference, Pasadena, California, USA.
Tolstoy Online
- Heuss, Michael R. "About Leo Tolstoy."
Great Literature Online. 1997-2010.
- Leo Tolstoy :
1828-1910 : The Centennial Anniversary
- Death of Tolstoy: Astapovo Station 1910
- Book: The
Death of Tolstoy: Russia on the Eve, Astapovo Station, 1910,
by William Nickell
- Authentic Film Footage of Leo Tolstoy! — 4 video formats, commentary Michael A. Denner, Tolstoy Studies Website Editor, University of Toronto, Canada.
- Tolstory, biography and geographic chronology (residences, travels)
- Book: The life of Tolstoy: first fifty years, by Aylmer Maude, 1908, 464 pages.
- Leo Tolstoy,
Wikipedia.c
Video on YouTube.com
- Tolstoy (2:52)
- Tolstoy (1:37)
- Leo Tolstoy - The Last Years (10:52)
- Leo Tolstoy reads from "For Every Day", 1908 (1:03)
- Tolstoy Giving to Peasants.mov (0:33)
- Tolstoy Death & Funeral.mov (2:40)
- "К 100-летию Льва Толстого обновили кинохронику его жизни" (For the 100th anniversary of Leo Tolstoy are updated chronicles of his life) NewsTube.ru (1 min. TV video news).
- 100 Years after
Death Tolstoy Still a Brand, Russia Today news (3:19)
Previous
Russian Literature Festivals in Long Beach
- 2009 — The Dostoyevsky Festival — Brochure
— Program — 2 days
- 2006 — Pushkin legacy celebrated
- 2006 — Pushkin legacy celebrated, Press-Telegram, Long Beach — 4 days