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Book/Printed Material Letter by Mahatma Gandhi Addressed to Slovak Dušan Makovický.

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Title

  • Letter by Mahatma Gandhi Addressed to Slovak Dušan Makovický.

Summary

  • Presented here is a letter by Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) received by Dušan Makovický (1866-1921), a Slovak who was personal physician and secretary to Russian novelist Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910). Makovický lived with Tolstoy at his estate Yasnaya Polyana, located some 200 kilometers from Moscow. In the letter, Gandhi thanks Makovický for his explication of Tolstoy's views on the concept of passive resistance. Probably the only original Gandhi manuscript preserved in the collections of any Slovak institution, the document is a testimony to the unique contacts the Slovaks had with this eminent thinker and politician of India and his philosophy of nonviolence.

Names

  • Gándhí, Mahátma, 1869-1948 Author.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1910-11-30.

Headings

  • -  South Africa--Gauteng--Johannesburg
  • -  Russian Federation--Tula Oblast--Yasnaya Polyana
  • -  1910-11-30
  • -  Correspondence
  • -  Letters
  • -  Makovický, Dušan, 1866-1921
  • -  Pacifism
  • -  Passive resistance
  • -  Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 handwritten page ; 20 x 12 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: Slovak National Library.
  • -  Content in English.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021668030

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Gándhí, Mahátma, Author. Letter by Mahatma Gandhi Addressed to Slovak Dušan Makovický. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, -11-30, 1910] Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021668030/.

APA citation style:

Gándhí, M. (1910) Letter by Mahatma Gandhi Addressed to Slovak Dušan Makovický. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, -11-30] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021668030/.

MLA citation style:

Gándhí, Mahátma, Author. Letter by Mahatma Gandhi Addressed to Slovak Dušan Makovický. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, -11-30, 1910] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021668030/>.