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According to Barbara Lonnquist, in the Bear Hunt, a bear skin is treated as a ceremonious, good-luck charm by traditional Russian folklore, and, as according to Russian peasant tradition, it is used to give good luck to a marriage ceremony.
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During this hunt, with his friend Gromeka, Tolstoy was armed with a German, double-barreled shotgun, but even so, the expedition nearly cost him his life. According to historian
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The timing of Tolstoy's renunciation of hunting also coincided with his advocacy of
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The text is commonly republished with the popular collection
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The Triumph of the Farmer or Industry and Parasitism
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Index

Russian
Leo Tolstoy
Nathan Haskell Dole
Vegetarianism
Pacifism
Arthur Stanley Turberville
Bibliography of Leo Tolstoy
Twenty-Three Tales
"3"
Leo Tolstoy, His Life and Work: Autobiographical Memoirs, Letters, and Biographical Material
Leo Tolstoy
The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy
The Bear Hunt
The Bear Hunt
Marxists.org
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Leo Tolstoy
Bibliography
Childhood
Boyhood
Youth
The Cossacks
War and Peace
Anna Karenina
Resurrection
Hadji Murat
A Landowner's Morning
Two Hussars

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