Russians read Tolstoy's War and Peace in 60-hour TV marathon

December 10, 2015 18:48

More than 1,300 Russians are reading Leo Tolstoy's notoriously lengthy novel "War and Peace" aloud in a 60-hour marathon on national television.

The public readings, pre-recorded at locations all over Russia, from the Winter Palace in St Petersburg to remote Arctic islands, have been coordinated by Tolstoy's great-great-granddaughter and feature Russians from all walks of life, from gas workers to cosmonauts.

By today morning, the readers had made it through two of the four volumes of the novel. The event runs over four days and finishes Friday.

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