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The Trouble with Tolstoy: In Search of Happiness

This is part two of the BBC documentary about the greatest writer that ever lived. (Part 1 is here.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62ye9XqcCUU

Alan Yentob continues his train ride through Tolstoy’s Russia, examining how Russia’s great novelist became her great troublemaker.

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The Trouble with Tolstoy: At War with Himself

This is part one of a must see BBC documentary on the world’s greatest writer, Lev Tolstoy. (Part 2 is here.)

Alan Yentob takes an epic train ride through Tolstoy’s Russia, examining how Russia’s great novelist became her great troublemaker.

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