Tolstoevsky

Blend of Tolstoy +‎ Dostoevsky

Tolstoevsky

1. (informal) The Russian novelists Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky.
   • 1973, Russkiĭ I︠a︡zyk (volumes 27-28, page 16)

     The obvious effect is to create courses by popular demand, the most obvious being the Tolstoevsky combination: one semester Dostoevsky, the other, Tolstoy.

   • 1995, Michael C. Finke, Metapoesis: The Russian Tradition from Pushkin to Chekhov, page 109:

     But how Tolstoy felt about Dostoevsky is of less importance to the present chapter – which is not a study in Tolstoevsky – than what is revealed by how he managed those feelings.

   • 2006, The Nabokovian (issues 56-59, page 62)

     But, if Terra (be it our world, its portrayal in the novels of "Tolstoevsky," or the "Terrible World" of Blok) actually exists, why not also to assume that water has a language?

   • 2009, David C. Engerman, Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet Experts, page 150:

     For all the attention that America's most important critics lavished on “Tolstoevsky,” Slavic experts were all but ignored.