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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, …
In this biography Rosamund Bartlett draws extensively on the many new sources which have been published about Tolstoy since the collapse of Communism to write about one of the most compelling, maddening, brilliant & contrary people who has ever lived.
In this biography Rosamund Bartlett draws extensively on the many new sources which have been published about Tolstoy since the collapse of Communism to write about one of the most compelling, maddening, brilliant & contrary people who has ever lived.
In this biography Rosamund Bartlett draws extensively on the many new sources which have been published about Tolstoy since the collapse of Communism to write about one of the most compelling, maddening, brilliant & contrary people who has ever lived.
A hundred years ago in November 1910 Count Leo Tolstoy died on a remote Russian railway station, attended by the world's media, taken ill as he was finally attempting to escape his decadent (as he saw it), aristocratic family life. Tolstoy has been universally recognised as a co…