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  1. Sophia Tolstaya in 1862. Sophia Behrs was one of three daughters of a German physician Andrey Evstafievich Behrs (1808–1868) and his Russian wife Liubov Alexandrovna Islavinа (1826–1886). Her maternal great-grandfather, Count Pyotr Zavadovsky, was the first Minister of education in Russia's history.

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  2. 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 ...

  3. Nov 22, 2022 · Film Forum. Nathalie Boutefeu as Sophia Tolstoy in Frederick Wiseman's A Couple, 2022. In July 1897 Mikhail Tolstoy, the tenth child of Lev Tolstoy, wanted to have a little chat with his mother. The subject: his “sexual urges,” which had grown increasingly “painful.”. Her teenaged son feared, she recounted in her diary, that he might ...

  4. 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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  5. 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 ...

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  6. Nov 16, 2023 · Quotes about Sophia Tolstaya. Persistent and undiscerning almost to the point of criminality as far as resources were concerned, this woman was of immeasurable hindrance to her husband, her children and humankind as a whole. Victor Lebrun, Leo Tolstoy, trans. Victor P. Epp (Lulu.com, 2005), p. 123. How difficult it is to recognize spiritual ...

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  8. Jan 1, 2001 · After many years of an increasingly troubled marriage - the couple argued over Tolstoy's desire to give away all his private property - Leo left Sophia abruptly in 1910, aged 81, with his doctor, Duchan Makovicki, and daughter Alexandra Tolstaya. Tolstoy died 10 days later in a railway station, whilst Sophia was kept away from him.

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