Bees are important in Tolstoy. They inspire one of the most important similes in War and Peace, and also feature several times in Anna Karenina, often at crucial moments.
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Having written a biography a few years ago, I knew that Tolstoy had developed a typically obsessive but short-lived passion for beekeeping in the 1860s.
Rosamund Bartlett, On Translating Tolstoy.
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Having written a biography a few years ago, I knew that Tolstoy had developed a typically obsessive but short-lived passion for beekeeping in the 1860s.
Rosamund Bartlett, On Translating Tolstoy.
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