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Russian writer Leo Tolstoy lived a life of incongruities: a landed aristocrat who espoused socialist values; the author of two of the greatest novels, War And Peace and Anna Karenina, but who later scorned their meaningfulness; a preacher of chastity who did not observe the ideal himself; a man who loved his wife but found he could not tolerate living with her. The complex final year of Tolstoy's life was told in a novel by Middlebury College professor Jay Parini, and that book is the basis for an acclaimed new movie by the same name, The Last Station.
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Christopher Plummer as Leo Tolstoy in "The Last Station"
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