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The Kreutzer Sonata

50% | Nov 02, 1914 | Drama

The Kreutzer Sonata is based on a novella by Leo Tolstoy, named after Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. The work is an argument for the ideal of sexual abstinence and an in-depth first-person description of jealous rage. The main character, Pozdnyshev, relates the events leading up to his killing his wife.

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Vladimir Gardin
Writer
Leo Tolstoy
Novel

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Boris Orsky
Pozdnyshev
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Evgeniya Uvarova
Pozdnyshev's wife
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Lydia Sycheva
Wife's mother
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Mikhail Tamarov
Leo Tolstoy

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