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4 days ago · A 2009 film about Tolstoy's final year, The Last Station, based on the 1990 novel by Jay Parini, was made by director Michael Hoffman with Christopher Plummer as Tolstoy and Helen Mirren as Sofya Tolstoya.
2 days ago · The serfs were acquitted in a trial in Tula, but Dostoevsky's brother Mikhail perpetuated the story. After his father's death, Dostoevsky continued his studies, passed his exams and obtained the rank of engineer cadet, entitling him to live away from the academy.
2 days ago · Emancipation and reform. Alexander II, color-printed wood engraving. Defeat in Crimea made Russia’s lack of modernization clear, and the first step toward modernization was the abolition of serfdom.
23 hours ago · The Prescott daughter Poppy (Joey King), however recognises Gru and blackmails him to joining her on a heist to steal the school mascot. Apart from the three minions (Pierre Coffin) who accompany ...
1 day ago · Apocalypse Now. Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The screenplay, co-written by Coppola, John Milius, and Michael Herr, is loosely inspired by the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, with the setting changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War.
5 days ago · Introducing, SURFER TV. It’s all things surfing, all the time, free of charge. Catch the latest surf edits, explore the archives for classic clips, and everything in between. Not by the beach? No worries – check out SURFER TV.
3 days ago · serfhood: 1 n the state of a serf Synonyms: serfdom , vassalage Type of: bondage , slavery , thraldom , thrall , thralldom the state of being under the control of another person
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