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As Leo Tolstoy's life draws to a tumultuous close, his tempestuous wife and most cunning disciple are locked in a whirlwind battle for the great man's soul. Torn between his professed doctrine of poverty and chastity and the reality of his enormous wealth and thirteen children, …
A biography of nineteenth-century Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, discussing his childhood and youth, his stint in the military, his discovery of Europe, his relationships, and his writing.
Leo Tolstoy
by Zorin, Andreĭ, (Andreĭ Leonidovich)
fromCritical lives (London, England)
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Type: Book
When he arrived in Moscow in 1851, a young Leo Tolstoy set himself three immediate aims: to gamble, to marry and to obtain a post. At that time he managed only the first. The writer's momentous life would be full of forced breaks and abrupt departures, from the death of his belo…
When he arrived in Moscow in 1851, a young Leo Tolstoy set himself three immediate aims: to gamble, to marry and to obtain a post. At that time he managed only the first. The writer's momentous life would be full of forced breaks and abrupt departures, from the death of his belo…
