Utah Valley State College will host the "Tolstoy Lecture Series," presented by Nickolai Tolstoy at noon, through Thursday March 14, in the Ragan Theater Student Center Building.
The event is sponsored by the Utah-Russian Institute and is free and open to the public.A living descendant of the famous Russian Tolstoy family, Nickolai Tolstoy's father was head of the Tolstoy and Miloslavsky families that escaped from Russia in 1920 and immigrated to England, where Nickolai was born in 1935.
In 1989, Tolstoy was given the largest fine in Britain's legal history, 1.5 million in British pounds, for claiming British Lord Alding-ton was a war criminal.
In July 1995 the European Court of Human Rights concluded the British government had violated Tolstoy's rights. In his lecture series, Tolstoy discussed the topics of "Ethics and War" on Monday, and will follow with "Tolstoy on Tolstoy" on Tuesday; "The Roman Empire Meets the Barbarians" on Wednesday and "From Arthur to the Holy Grail" on Thursday.