Tolstoyan
Glossary term
/tɒlˈstɔɪ.ən/
Also appears as: Tolstoyan figures
Russian-sage chic: beard, sanctity, disreputability and the vague possibility of having wandered out of a very bad icon.
Appears in
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Connections
Who uses the word
- Rasputin ← character glossary (1 passage)
From the books (1 passage)
…in the Russian Orthodox tradition, although so poorly conceived and executed as to afford little clue whom the Tolstoyan figures thereon depicted were supposed to represent; Rasputin with aristocratic handmaidens, I was moved to suggest to myself.