Tolstoevsky
English
editEtymology
editBlend of Tolstoy + Dostoevsky
Proper noun
editTolstoevsky
- (informal) The Russian novelists Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky.
- 1973, Russkiĭ I︠a︡zyk, volumes 27-28, page 16:
- The obvious effect is to create courses by popular demand, the most obvious being the Tolstoevsky combination: one semester Dostoevsky, the other, Tolstoy.
- 1995, Michael C. Finke, Metapoesis: The Russian Tradition from Pushkin to Chekhov, page 109:
- 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.
- 2006, The Nabokovian, numbers 56-59, page 62:
- 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?
- 2009, David C. Engerman, Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet Experts, page 150:
- For all the attention that America's most important critics lavished on “Tolstoevsky,” Slavic experts were all but ignored.