Comments on: The real Tolstoy http://solidgoldcreativity.com/2010/02/08/the-real-tolstoy/ Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:20:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: solidgoldcreativity http://solidgoldcreativity.com/2010/02/08/the-real-tolstoy/#comment-721 solidgoldcreativity Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:19:23 +0000 http://solidgoldcreativity.com/?p=3489#comment-721 ha ha. Yes, the music adds so much. It's had me search high and low for my one and only Tchaikovsky CD. When I find it it's going to have a good workout. ha ha. Yes, the music adds so much. It’s had me search high and low for my one and only Tchaikovsky CD. When I find it it’s going to have a good workout.

]]> By: Phil http://solidgoldcreativity.com/2010/02/08/the-real-tolstoy/#comment-720 Phil Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:07:48 +0000 http://solidgoldcreativity.com/?p=3489#comment-720 <i>".....Leo Tolstoy walked like Charlie Chaplin.....</i> They <i>all</i> walked like Charlie Chaplin!! Could the depth of your feeling that what you were watching was mysterious in a peculiarly Russian way, have come from your hearing the accompanying music of Tchaikovsky. When listening to the piano concertos and symphonies of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov, I often ask myself whether what I am listening to could have been composed by anyone other than a Russian. “…..Leo Tolstoy walked like Charlie Chaplin…..

They all walked like Charlie Chaplin!!

Could the depth of your feeling that what you were watching was mysterious in a peculiarly Russian way, have come from your hearing the accompanying music of Tchaikovsky.

When listening to the piano concertos and symphonies of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov, I often ask myself whether what I am listening to could have been composed by anyone other than a Russian.

]]> By: solidgoldcreativity http://solidgoldcreativity.com/2010/02/08/the-real-tolstoy/#comment-718 solidgoldcreativity Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:27:03 +0000 http://solidgoldcreativity.com/?p=3489#comment-718 Aren't they? There's some weird bonnet-cum-beret thing that two women are wearing at one point, and others seem to be wearing astrakhans with scarves over them. Aren’t they? There’s some weird bonnet-cum-beret thing that two women are wearing at one point, and others seem to be wearing astrakhans with scarves over them.

]]> By: solidgoldcreativity http://solidgoldcreativity.com/2010/02/08/the-real-tolstoy/#comment-717 solidgoldcreativity Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:25:11 +0000 http://solidgoldcreativity.com/?p=3489#comment-717 That's how I feel too, Thomas. There's something very special and mysterious for me about Russia. And this clip from pre-Revolutionary, pre-WW1 days, is all the more mysterious. I really get the feeling of a vanished world. That’s how I feel too, Thomas. There’s something very special and mysterious for me about Russia. And this clip from pre-Revolutionary, pre-WW1 days, is all the more mysterious. I really get the feeling of a vanished world.

]]> By: Thomas Stazyk http://solidgoldcreativity.com/2010/02/08/the-real-tolstoy/#comment-716 Thomas Stazyk Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:34:52 +0000 http://solidgoldcreativity.com/?p=3489#comment-716 One other thing--did anyone else notice how bizarre the women's hats look? One other thing–did anyone else notice how bizarre the women’s hats look?

]]> By: Thomas Stazyk http://solidgoldcreativity.com/2010/02/08/the-real-tolstoy/#comment-715 Thomas Stazyk Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:33:46 +0000 http://solidgoldcreativity.com/?p=3489#comment-715 Thank you for posting this--really interesting in a number of ways. One of the things that pulls me, at least, into Tolstoy's (and other Russian writers') books is the mysterious world of Russia and these clips capture that somehow. Thank you for posting this–really interesting in a number of ways. One of the things that pulls me, at least, into Tolstoy’s (and other Russian writers’) books is the mysterious world of Russia and these clips capture that somehow.

]]> By: solidgoldcreativity http://solidgoldcreativity.com/2010/02/08/the-real-tolstoy/#comment-712 solidgoldcreativity Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:52:27 +0000 http://solidgoldcreativity.com/?p=3489#comment-712 It is amazing. I'm very moved seeing them all, and seeing his little dog and the kids running around in circles at the station, and Sophia picking a flower knowing the camera's on her, and the odd kind of walking stick he had. I know what you mean about another time that's hard to work out. It's like a time out of time. It is amazing. I’m very moved seeing them all, and seeing his little dog and the kids running around in circles at the station, and Sophia picking a flower knowing the camera’s on her, and the odd kind of walking stick he had.

I know what you mean about another time that’s hard to work out. It’s like a time out of time.

]]> By: andreaskluth http://solidgoldcreativity.com/2010/02/08/the-real-tolstoy/#comment-710 andreaskluth Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:06:02 +0000 http://solidgoldcreativity.com/?p=3489#comment-710 What an amazing clip. It transports us to another time. I can't even decide whether it was recent (by comparison to Hannibal and Scipio, to Virgil and Caesar, yes) or apocryphal (when contrasted with our media cornucopia, yes). Since I was watching the great man on a YouTube video embedded in a blog, I could not help but wonder how he would have done in today's environment. Would he even have stood out enough to become a classic? What an amazing clip. It transports us to another time. I can’t even decide whether it was recent (by comparison to Hannibal and Scipio, to Virgil and Caesar, yes) or apocryphal (when contrasted with our media cornucopia, yes).

Since I was watching the great man on a YouTube video embedded in a blog, I could not help but wonder how he would have done in today’s environment. Would he even have stood out enough to become a classic?

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