pierre bezukhov in scotland?

[ilya vinitsky]

> Did Tolstoy know enough about Freemasonry to be
> concerned about the 
> fine details?  Perhaps he
> only was familiar with the term "shotlandskij lozh"
> without really knowing the details of place.

Tolstoy was very well familiar with the details. In
1866, he studied Masonic manuscripts  (documents,
acts, protocols, diares) of the Lanskoi and Eshevskii
collection at Rumiantsevskii muzei (the Rukopisnyi
otdel RGB nowadays). 

On the Masonic motifs in War and Peace see, for
example, a fine article by V. I. Shcherbakov, 
"Neizvestnyi istochnik 'Voiny i mira' in Novoe
literaturnoe obozrenie, #21, 1996 (on the Mason
Titov's real diary as a source material for Pierre's
fictional diary).   
 

Ilya Vinitsky



 
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