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Slavic Colloquium - Irina Reyfman: Leo Tolstoy in the Eighteenth Century 1

Literature Talk

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Slavic Colloquium - Irina Reyfman: Leo Tolstoy in the Eighteenth Century

Literature Talk

Slavic Colloquium - Irina Reyfman: Leo Tolstoy in the Eighteenth Century

Name: Slavic Colloquium - Irina Reyfman: Leo Tolstoy in the Eighteenth Century
Start: 2026-05-13T16:30:00-07:00
End: 2026-05-13T18:00:00-07:00
Location: Pigott Hall (Building 260)

At Pigott Hall (Building 260)

Stanford

Tolstoy spent years wrestling with an epic about Peter the Great that he never finished. Columbia professor Irina Reyfman unpacks the 33 surviving drafts and what they reveal about the master's view of history.

Russian literature

academic talk

literary scholarship

history focus

Tips

📜33 drafts, zero finished novels

🎓open to the public, no RSVP needed

Pigott Hall (Building 260)

Building 260, 450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

+1 650-723-2300

sgs.stanford.edu

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Slavic Colloquium - Irina Reyfman: Leo Tolstoy in the Eighteenth Century

At Pigott Hall (Building 260)

Stanford

Literature Talk

Russian literature

academic talk

literary scholarship

history focus

Tips

📜33 drafts, zero finished novels

🎓open to the public, no RSVP needed

Directions

Pigott Hall (Building 260)

Building 260, 450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

+1 650-723-2300

sgs.stanford.edu

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