Thomas Edison’s Recordings of Leo Tolstoy: Hear the Voice of the Nice Russian Novelist

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Born 196 years in the past, Russ­ian nov­el­ist Leo Tolstoy’s life (1828–1910) spanned a peri­od of immense social, polit­i­cal, and tech­no­log­i­cal change, par­al­leled in his personal life by his rad­i­cal shift from hedo­nis­tic noble­man to the­olo­gian, anar­chist, and veg­e­tar­i­an paci­fist. Although he didn’t dwell to see the Russ­ian Rev­o­lu­tion, the nov­el­ist did see Tsar Alexan­der…