New book on Tolstoy and the Doukhobors

[SLAVIC RESEARCH GROUP]

Ottawa, Tuesday 14/2/06 13h00 EST

Dear SEELANGERS,

The Centre for Research on Canadian-Russian Relations at Carleton
University and the Slavic Research Group at the University of Ottawa are
pleased to announce the publication of Volume 7 in the Canada-Russia
Series, by Andrew Donskov:

"Leo Tolstoy and the Canadian Doukhobors: an historic relationship"

now published by Carleton University's Centre for Research on
Canadian-Russian Relations and distributed by Penumbra Press.

This study, based in good part on a variety of hitherto unpublished
documents (government and official Orthodox Church reports, diaries and
letters, as well as Tolstoy's treatises and works of fiction), and
complemented by guest essays, oral interviews and questionnaires, seeks
to trace (both historically and from literary sources), the nature of
the evolving relationship between one of Russia's greatest writers
(along with members of his family) and the people known as the
Doukhobors, to whom he was a kindred spirit, lending his moral and
financial support to their emigration en masse to Canada in 1899.

In addition to six critical chapters, the book also contains guest
essays by three prominent Doukhobors, archival documents by Sergej
L'vovich Tolstoy and Sofia Andreevna Tolstaja, 38 archival letters
concerning the Doukhobors, along with an extensive appendix,
bibliography and index.  All text is in English or English translation.

Further details may be found at:
http://www.arts.uottawa.ca/gres/toldoukhen.html

John Woodsworth, Adminstrative Assistant and Research Associate
Slavic Research Group at the University of Ottawa

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