Masaryk on Tolstoy and Gorky

Antonín Měšťan

pp. 149-160

in: T. G. Masaryk (1850–1937) III, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1990

Abstract

Masaryk considered himself an expert on Russia and Russian literature. Several generations of Czechs as well as of other nationalities, including Russians, shared this conviction of his. It is however well known that he did not acquire his knowledge about Russia from a long stay in that country, or among Russians, as his trips there were but brief and he only maintained contacts with a limited circle of Russian intellectuals of mostly liberal tendencies.

Cited authors

Masaryk Tomáš Garrigue

Tolstoj Lev

Gorkij Maxim