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The Road to Calvary
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Wikipedia article
'The Road to Calvary' , also translated as 'Ordeal', is a trilogy of novels by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, tracing the fate of the Russian intelligentsia on the eve of, during, and after the revolution of 1917. It consists of the novels 'Sisters' (19181922; ), 'The Eighteenth Year' (19271928; ) and 'Gloomy Morning' (19401941; ). The first part was written for the 'migr ' readers, while the rest was written as a work of Socialist realism. [https://books.google.fr/books?id=uXxEAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA810&lpg=PA810&dq=Road+Calvary+Khozhdenie+po+mukam&source=bl&ots=zX8tVYC0og&sig=KsQ3xxLQkPa-u1Za45Nrhw15cgg&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj8-u_TuKzfAhWq4YUKHXrgCP04ChDoATABegQIBRAB#v=onepage&q=Road%20Calvary%20Khozhdenie%20po%20mukam&f=false Neil Cornwell, Reference Guide to Russian Literature] Routledge, 2013, , 810 p.
Background
The first part, 'Sisters', was written from 1918 to 1920, during the author's emigration, while the rest he wrote after his return to Soviet Russia. The novel 'Sisters' was published in the White migr journals 'Gryadushchaya Rossiya' and 'Sovremennye zapiski' under the title 'Walking Through Torments'. In 1941, after the start of the Great Patriotic War, Tolstoy reworked the 2 first parts and wrote the third one as works of socrealism.' ..' . (, 2017.)']' . .' [https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/issledovanie-ob-emigrantskom-romane-a-n-tolstogo-hozhdenie-po-mukam-1919-1921-retsenziya-na-monografiyu-vorontsovoy-g-n-roman-a-n-tolstogo . . (19191921)'][https://books.google.fr/books?id=uXxEAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA810&lpg=PA810&dq=Road+Calvary+Khozhdenie+po+mukam&source=bl&ots=zX8tVYC0og&sig=KsQ3xxLQkPa-u1Za45Nrhw15cgg&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj8-u_TuKzfAhWq4YUKHXrgCP04ChDoATABegQIBRAB#v=onepage&q=Road%20Calvary%20Khozhdenie%20po%20mukam&f=false Neil Cornwell, Reference Guide to Russian Literature] Routledge, 2013, , 810 p.
Plot
In the first chapters of the epic, St. Petersburg is shown in the beginning of 1914. Sisters Dasha and Ekaterina (Katya) Bulaviny, originally from Samara, are carried away by the poet-decadent Bessonoff. Katya is married to Smokovnikov, a lawyer, and has an illicit affair behind his back.
Over time, Ekaterina Dmitrievna falls in love with officer Vadim Petrovich Roshchin, and Dasha with Ivan Ilyich Telegin, an engineer at the Baltic plant. World War I, two revolutions and civil war carry the four main characters to different corners of the country. Their paths intersect more than once and again diverge. Roshchin joins the Volunteer Army, and Telegin joins the Red Army. At the end of the war, all four meet in the capital of Soviet Russia, where in the presence of Lenin and Stalin they enthusiastically listen to Gleb Krzhizhanovsky's historic report on the GOELRO plan.
Awards
For his trilogy Alexey Tolstoy was awarded the Stalin Prize of the first degree in the amount of 100,000 rubles on March 19, 1943, which he transferred to the Defense Fund for the construction of the tank "Grozny" (T-34 No. 310-0929).
Adaptations
* 'The Road to Calvary' Soviet three-part feature film (1957-1959)
* 'The Road to Calvary' Soviet 13-episode miniseries (1977)
* 'The Road to Calvary' Russian 12-episode miniseries (2017)
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Category:Novels by Alexei Tolstoy
Category:Epic novels
Category:Russian historical novels
Category:Novels set in 20th-century Russia
Category:Russian novels adapted into television shows
Category:Russian novels adapted into films
Category:1920 novels
Category:1928 Russian novels
Category:1941 novels
Category:Socrealist novels
Category:Novels set in the Russian Revolution
Category:Novels set during the Russian Civil War
Category:Literary trilogies
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