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Tolstoevsky

Tolstoevsky proper noun: the Russian novelists Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky; their respective oeuvres considered as a single corpus.

Proper noun

Tolstoevsky

  1. (informal) The Russian novelists Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky; their respective oeuvres considered as a single corpus
    • The obvious effect is to create courses by popular demand, the most obvious being the Tolstoevsky combination: one semester Dostoevsky, the other, Tolstoy.1973, Russkiĭ I︠a︡zyk, volumes 27-28, page 16
    • But how Tolstoy felt about Dostoevsky is of less importance to the present chapter – which is not a study in Tolstoevsky – than what is revealed by how he managed those feelings.1995, Michael C. Finke, Metapoesis: The Russian Tradition from Pushkin to Chekhov, page 109

Examples of Tolstoevsky in a sentence

  • But, if Terra (be it our world, its portrayal in the novels of "Tolstoevsky," or the "Terrible World" of Blok) actually exists, why not also to assume that water has a language?2006, The Nabokovian, numbers 56-59, page 62:
  • For all the attention that America's most important critics lavished on “Tolstoevsky,” Slavic experts were all but ignored.2009, David C. Engerman, Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet Experts, page 150:

Origin of Tolstoevsky

Blend of Tolstoy + Dostoevsky.

Questions about Tolstoevsky

What does Tolstoevsky mean?
Tolstoevsky means the Russian novelists Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky; their respective oeuvres considered as a single corpus.
How do you use Tolstoevsky in a sentence?
But, if Terra (be it our world, its portrayal in the novels of "Tolstoevsky," or the "Terrible World" of Blok) actually exists, why not also to assume that water has a language?
What part of speech is Tolstoevsky?
Tolstoevsky is a proper noun.

Words near Tolstoevsky in the dictionary

  1. tolseys
  2. Tolsma
  3. Tolsmas
  4. Tolson
  5. Tolsons
  6. Tolstoevsky
  7. Tolstoian
  8. Tolstoians
  9. Tolstovian
  10. tolstovka
  11. tolstovkas

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