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Countess Sophia Andreyevna Tolstaya ( Russian: Со́фья Андре́евна Толста́я, née Behrs ( Берс ); 3 September [ O.S. 22 August] 1844 – 4 November 1919), sometimes anglicised as Sofia Tolstoy, Sophia Tolstoy and Sonya Tolstoy, was a Russian diarist, and the wife of writer Count Leo Tolstoy .
Sofia Tolstaya. My Life is the published memoirs of Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya ( Sofia Tolstaya ), the wife of Leo Tolstoy. Her manuscript lay dormant for almost a century. [1] Historically, little attention has been paid to Sofia who, acting in the capacity of literary assistant, translator, transcriber, and editor, played an important role in ...
Sofia Tolstaya. Sophia Andreyevna Tolstaya (née Behrs) (Russian: Со́фья Андре́евна Толста́я, sometimes Anglicised as Sophia Tolstoy), was the wife of Russian novelist and thinker Leo Tolstoy. Sophia was one of 3 daughters of physician Andrey Behrs, and Liubov Alexandrovna Behrs. Sophia was first introduced to Leo ...
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Aug 19, 2014 · Published in 1889, the story presented Tolstoy’s increasingly radical views on sexual relations and marriage through a frenzied monologue delivered by a narrator who, in a fit of jealousy and ...
Portrait of countess Sophia Tolstaya (1844-1919), with daughter Alexandra. Found In The Collection Of State Museum Of Leo Tolstoy, Moscow. When Sophia Tolstoy learned that she was pregnant with ...
Nov 11, 2022 · Nov. 11, 2022. “I work without respite,” Sophia Tolstaya says in Frederick Wiseman’s “A Couple.” “I suffer from the impossibility of achieving what I want to do.”. Living with Leo ...
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Feb 4, 2011 · My Life also reveals that Tolstaya was an accomplished author in her own right—as well as a translator, amateur artist, musician, photographer, and businesswoman—a rarity in the largely male-dominated world of the time. She was actively involved in the relief efforts for the 1891–92 famine and the emigration of the Doukhobors in 1899.
