Tolstoy: The Man Behind Anna

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A.N. Wilson
A.N. Wilson

Self - Tolstoy Biographer

Nicholas Warner
Nicholas Warner

Self - Prof. of Literature, Claremont McKenna College

Nikolai Tolstoy
Nikolai Tolstoy

Himself - Author of "The Tolstoys: Twenty-Four Generations of Russian History"

Harris Wofford
Harris Wofford

Himself - Former U.S. Senator, PA; Advisor to Martin Luther King Jr.

Leo Tolstoy
Лев Толстой

Self (archive footage)

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