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Road to Calvary is a book by Alexei Tolstoy.

From the publisher's note: "Alexei Tolstoy began work on this novel in 1919 and finished writing the final paragraph on the morning of June 22nd, 1941."


 * Part One - The Sisters


 * Part Two - 1918


 * Part Three - Bleak Morning

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Key words and phrases Dasha, Denikin, Telegin, Tsaritsyn, Red Army, Yekaterinodar, Bolsheviks, muzhiks, Yekaterinoslav, Roshchin, Bessonov, Moscow, Levka, Chugay, Katyusha, steppe, Katia, Zubtsov, Petrograd, Ataman

Subjects Fiction

More details Road to Calvary By Alexei Tolstoy, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Edith Bone Translated by Edith Bone Published by A. A. Knopf, 1946 Original from the University of Michigan Digitized 21 Apr 2008 885 pages

Contents PART ONE The Sisters 4 Dasha, Bessonov, Telegin

PART Two 252 Yekaterinodar, Denikin, Bolsheviks

PART THREE Bleak Morning 534 Tsaritsyn, Red Army, Denikin

Review from Google Books:

A massive, monumental work which was ... ... awarded the Stalin prize and constitutes a fictional record of the stormy, sanguinary years of the Russian Revolution. It is, in actual fact, a trilogy, The Sisters, 1918, and Bleak Morning, with ... more » the deterrents, from a popular point of view, of its Russian scene, its fondness for excessive detail, and its physical proportions (some 500,000 words). The first part is perhaps the most personal; the second and third parts, concerned chiefly with the revolution, is a cavalcade of combat incident which is fairly formidable even in print. The story itself tells of two sisters, Dasha and Katia, well born, socially and physically attractive, and from the Soviet point of view ""utterly useless women"". Katia dissolves her first marriage after an affair, goes to Paris, returns during World War I to fall in love with Roshchin. She breaks with Roshchin when he becomes a White, only interested in revenge upon the Reds. She eventually becomes a prisoner and prize of war of a crude peasant, and she escapes to return to Moscow as a schoolteacher, where she is reunited with Roshchin, believed dead, and now a Red. Her sister Dasha, more delicate, more innocent, indulges in many virginal vapors, then falls in love with Telegin, an engineer, who during the war is reported dead- but escapes to return to Dasha. With the Revolution Dasha loses her baby, turns against Telegin who enlists in the Red Army. Dasha becomes a nurse; Telegin is eventually her wounded patient, and all are reunited at the close in Moscow to celebrate the cause of free man and the rising Soviet. As sizeable a work as this is in itself impressive--- one wonders however whether it will have an audience beyond the critical. « less Kirkus Reviews Copyright (c) VNU Business Media, Inc.