NB: This event will now begin at 7:00 pm: Andrey Zorin has asked us to postpone it for an hour in order to support his friend and colleague Sergei Zuev, the rector of the Shaninka University who has recently been detained in Moscow.
Andrey Zorin will talk on the TV Rain channel: "Sergei Zuev’s arrest is not only an attack on Russian education but also a physical danger to his life. He has just survived two surgeries and was taken to prison form the hospital."
AS PART OF PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZE 2021, WE ARE DELIGHTED TO WELCOME ANDREI ZORIN TO SPEAK ABOUT HIS SHORTLISTED BOOK LEO TOLSTOY. ANDREI WILL BE IN CONVERSATION WITH VIV GROSKOP, AUTHOR OF THE LITERARY SELF-HELP MEMOIR ‘THE ANNA KARENINA FIX’.
When he arrived in Moscow in 1851, a young Leo Tolstoy set himself three immediate aims: to gamble, to marry and to obtain a post. At that time he managed only the first. The writer’s momentous life would be full of forced breaks and abrupt departures, from the death of his beloved parents to an abandonment of the social class into which he had been born. Shortlisted for the 2021 Pushkin House Book Prize, Andrei Zorin’s succint biography of the great writer pieces together Tolstoy’s life, offering an account of the novelist’s deepest feelings and motives, and an interpretation of his major works, including the celebrated novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
Andrei Zorin is professor and chair of Russian at the University of Oxford. He is the author or co-author of several books on Russian literature and culture, including On The Periphery of Europe 1762–1825: The Self-Invention of the Russian Elite.
Read our Q&A with Andrei Zorin
Viv Groskop is a writer, comedian and broadcaster. Author of the bestselling book The Anna Karenina Fix, she believes she has discovered the meaning of life in Russian literature.
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