Tolstoy, painted by Ivan Kramskoj
The Moscow Leo Tolstoy Museum has quickly gained 3,000 volunteers on the leg to edit. scanned texts of Tolstoy This to bring.
the digitization of Tolstoy’s complete oeuvre
Volunteers came according to a report in the New Yorker from all walks of the Russian population. Thus was the readership include “engineers, IT specialists, teachers, retirees, a student pilot and a 20-year-old waitress.”
Reading Tolstoy’s texts, more than 46,000 pages in total, took the rush out the estimated six months, but only two weeks.
Thanks to the joint effort is the digitization of Tolstoy’s oeuvre as well as completed. Fyokla Tolstaya, a descendant of the famous writer and driving force behind the digitization project, is Tolstoy’s work on the first free digitally available to guarantee.
Tolstoy’s great reputationThey also resented the incompleteness of Tolstoy’s texts as they are already here and there on the web. Tolstaya’s project is “nearly all of the great Russian writer’s massive body of work” as the New Yorker reports, including “novels, diaries, letters, religious tracts, philosophical treatises, travelogues, and childhood memories” .
The museum does Tolstaya everything according to the texts for each digital reader access to:
“We Decided to make it really easy to use, compatible for iPad, e-reader, Kindle.”
spontaneity and unanimity of Russians, according Tolstaya incidentally all of Tolstoy:
“It’s According to Leo Tolstoy’s ideas, to do it with the help of all people around the world-vsem MIROM-even the world’s hardest task can be done with the help of everyone.”
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