Tolstoevsky

English

Etymology

Blend of Tolstoy +‎ Dostoevsky

Proper noun

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, numbers 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.