War of 1812 Vienna, during which British diplomats had clashed with Russian and Prussian diplomats over the terms of the peace with France, and there were fears at the Britain might have go to war with Russia and Prussia. Now each side was tired of the war. Export trade was all but paralyzed and after Napoleon fell in 1814 France was no longer an enemy of Britain, so the Royal Navy no longer needed to stop American shipments to France, and it no longer needed to impress more seamen. It had ended the practices that so angered the Americans in 1812. The British
L. Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky a pagan here ("seer of flesh"), while Fyodor Dostoyevsky opposed him as a "seer of spirit". The Merezhkovsky's study on the works of Leo Tolstoy was subsequently recognized as the most detailed and accurate. L. Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky L. Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky was a critical essay written by Dmitry Merezhkovsky and published between 1900-1901 in "Mir iskusstva" magazine. The publication coincided with Leo Tolstoy's excommunication by Most Holy Synod and drew a wide public response. "L. Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky" is considered the most significant work of Merezhkovsky in the genre of literary research essays. The work was partly devoted to