About Tolstoi
Tolstoy Biogrpahies
Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online (Gale)
Use the search term "Tolstoi" to find a biographical sketch of Tolstoy by Edward Wasiolek.
Wasiolek, Edward. "Leo Tolstoy (28 August 1828-7 November 1910)". Russian Novelists in the Age of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Ed. J. Alexander Ogden and Judith E. Kalb. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 238. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001. 315-338.
Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy
Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online (Gale)
Use the search term "Tolstoi" to find a biographical sketch of Tolstoy by Edward Wasiolek.
Wasiolek, Edward. "Leo Tolstoy (28 August 1828-7 November 1910)". Russian Novelists in the Age of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Ed. J. Alexander Ogden and Judith E. Kalb. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 238. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001. 315-338.
Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy
Tolstoy's Pollitical, Philosophical and Religious Views
Reading War & Peace
Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online (Gale)
Use the search term "Tolstoi" to find a biographical sketch of Tolstoy by Edward Wasiolek.
Wasiolek, Edward. "Leo Tolstoy (28 August 1828-7 November 1910)". Russian Novelists in the Age of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Ed. J. Alexander Ogden and Judith E. Kalb. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 238. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001. 315-338.
Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy
Reading Tolstoy
Selected introductory print titles to Tolstoy's work available at Falvey. To review all titles with Tolstoy criticism click here.
MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO)
Comprehensive index of literature criticism. Select Author's work-SWK from the search menu and enter "Voina i mir." Use the FindIt button to link to the full text or to request articles via interlibrary loan.
Sample articles:
White, M. (2003). Tolstoy the empirical fox. Raritan: A Quarterly Review, 22(4), 110-126.
Givens, J. (2009). The fiction of fact and the fact of fiction: Hayden White and War and Peace. Tolstoy Studies Journal, 21, 15-32.
Bell, F. (2002). Truth and lies in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. Queens Quarterly, 109(2), 221-231.
Cambridge Companion to War Writing
Cambridge Histories Online.
Cambridge History of Russian Literature
Cambridge History of Russia, Vol. 2: Imperial Russia, 1689-1917
Use the search term "Tolstoi" to find a biographical sketch of Tolstoy by Edward Wasiolek.
Wasiolek, Edward. "Leo Tolstoy (28 August 1828-7 November 1910)". Russian Novelists in the Age of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Ed. J. Alexander Ogden and Judith E. Kalb. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 238. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001. 315-338.
Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy
Reading Tolstoy
Selected introductory print titles to Tolstoy's work available at Falvey. To review all titles with Tolstoy criticism click here.
MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO)
Comprehensive index of literature criticism. Select Author's work-SWK from the search menu and enter "Voina i mir." Use the FindIt button to link to the full text or to request articles via interlibrary loan.
Sample articles:
White, M. (2003). Tolstoy the empirical fox. Raritan: A Quarterly Review, 22(4), 110-126.
Givens, J. (2009). The fiction of fact and the fact of fiction: Hayden White and War and Peace. Tolstoy Studies Journal, 21, 15-32.
Bell, F. (2002). Truth and lies in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. Queens Quarterly, 109(2), 221-231.
Cambridge Companion to War Writing
Cambridge Histories Online.
Cambridge History of Russian Literature
Cambridge History of Russia, Vol. 2: Imperial Russia, 1689-1917
Books and Journal Articles About the French Invasion of Russia
Falvey Library Catalog
WorldCat (FirstSearch)
Presents a combined catalog of the catalogs of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide. WorldCat highlights publications available at Villanova University. Other items can be requested via an inter-library loan request form.
Historical Abstracts (EBSCO)
An annotated reference guide to the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present. Includes journal articles, book reviews and dissertations.
Subjects: Russia and Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
Review article: Lieven, Dominic. "Russia and the Defeat of Napoleon (1812-14)." Kritika: Explorations In Russian & Eurasian History 7, no. 2 (May 8, 2006): 283-308.
- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 - Campaigns - Russia
- Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 1777-1825
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
- Russia - History - 1801-1917
WorldCat (FirstSearch)
Presents a combined catalog of the catalogs of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide. WorldCat highlights publications available at Villanova University. Other items can be requested via an inter-library loan request form.
Historical Abstracts (EBSCO)
An annotated reference guide to the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present. Includes journal articles, book reviews and dissertations.
Subjects: Russia and Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
Review article: Lieven, Dominic. "Russia and the Defeat of Napoleon (1812-14)." Kritika: Explorations In Russian & Eurasian History 7, no. 2 (May 8, 2006): 283-308.
Selected Eyewitness Accounts of the French Invasion of Russia
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Additional eyewitness accounts are available in the Hathi Trust Digital Library. Use interlibrary loan for books which are not available full text online.
Additional eyewitness accounts are available in the Hathi Trust Digital Library. Use interlibrary loan for books which are not available full text online.
- Adams, John Quincy.
Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, Comprising Portions of His Diary From 1795 to 1848.
Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, 1969.
"The Mission to Russia," vol. 2, pp. 3-497.
Print. - Adams, John Quincy.
Diary, 1794-1845.
New York: Scribner, 1951.
"Minister to Russia, 1809-1813," pp. 60-109.
Print. - Bourgogne, Adrien Jean Baptiste François.
Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne, 1812-1813.
New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1899.
Print. - Brett-James, Antony.
1812: Eyewitness Accounts of Napoleon's Defeat in Russia.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1966.
Print. - Cathcart, George.
Commentaries on the War in Russia and Germany in 1812 and 1813.
London: J. Murray, 1850.
Online. Hathi Trust. - Caulaincourt, Armand-Augustin-Louis de.
With Napoleon in Russia: The Memoirs of General De Caulaincourt, Duke of Vicenza.
New York: W. Morrow, 1935.
Print. - Chuikevich, Petr Andreevich and Alexis Eustaphieve.
Reflections On the War of 1812: With Tables, Shewing the Numerical Force of the Enemy, When He Entered Russia, and the Losses He Sustained in the Subsequent Battles and Actions. Founded Upon Official Documents.
Boston: Re-printed by Munroe & Francis, 1813.
Online. Shaw-Shoemaker Collection. - Clausewitz, Carl.
The Russian Campaign of 1812.
New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2007.
Print. On order. - Davydov, Denis.
In the Service of the Tsar against Napoleon: The Memoirs of Denis Davidov, 1806-1814.
London: Greenhill Books, 1999.
Print. On order. - Durova, N. A. 1783-1866.
The Cavalry Maiden: Journals of a Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988.
Print. - Ermolov, A. P. 1777-1861.
The Czar's General: The Memoirs of a Russian General in the Napoleonic Wars.
Welwyn Garden City, U.K.: Ravenhall, 2005.
Print. - Eustaphieve, Alexis.
The Resources of Russia in the Event of a War With France: With a Short Description of the Cozaks.
Boston: Munroe and Francis, 1813.
Online. Making of the Modern World Collection. - Fezensac, Raymond-Aymery-Philippe-Joseph de Montesquiou.
The Russian Campaign, 1812.
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1970.
Print. - Labaume, Eugène.
A Circumstantial Narrative of the Campaign in Russia: Embellished With Plans of the Battles of the Moskwa and Malo-Jaroslavits. Containing a Faithful Description of the Affecting and Interesting Scenes of Which the Author Was an Eye-witness.
Hartford: Published by Silas Andrus and by E. Peck & Co. Rochester, N.Y. Printed by Hamlen & Newton., 1817.
Online. Shaw-Shoemaker Collection. - Londonderry, Charles W. V.
Narrative of the War in Germany and France: In 1813 and 1814.
London: H. Coburn and R. Bentley, 1830.
Online. Hathi Trust. - Müffling, Friedrich K. F.
The Memoirs of Baron Von Müffling: A Prussian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars.
London: Greenhill Books, 1997.
Print. On order - Odeleben, Ernst O.I.
A Circumstantial Narrative of the Campaign in Saxony, in the Year 1813.
London: J. Murray, 1820.
Online. Hathi Trust. - Porter, Robert Ker.
A Narrative of the Campaign in Russia During the Year 1812.
Trenton: Moore, Brown & Lake, 1814.
Online. Shaw-Shoemaker Collection. - Ségur, Philippe-Paul.
Napoleon's Russian Campaign.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958.
Print. - Ségur, Philippe-Paul.
History of the Expedition to Russia, Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon, in the Year 1812.
New York: Harper, 1841.
Online. Hathi Trust. - Uexküll, Boris.
Arms and the Woman: The Diaries of Baron Boris Uxkull, 1812-1819.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1966.
Print. On order. - Westmorland, John F.
Memoir of the Operations of the Allied Armies: Under Prince Schwarzenberg, and Marshal Blucher, During the Latter End of 1813, and the Year 1814.
London: J. Murray, 1822.
Online. Hathi Trust. - Wilson, Robert Thomas.
General Wilson's Journal, 1812-1814.
London: Kimber, 1964.
Print. - Worcester, Noah.
The Friend of Peace.
Greenfield, Mass.: Ansel Phelps, 1817.
Online. Sabin Americana Collection.
Maps & Graphs of the French Invasion of Russia
- Napoleonic Wars
Digitized maps from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. - Minard's graph illustrating the decreasing size of the French army during the Russian campaign, 1812-1813