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Sep 20, 2018 · Presents the translated diaries of the wife of Leo Tolstoy, describing her difficult life with the husband she idolized, but who tormented her and their many children during an extremely turbulent period in Russian history "First published in this revised and abridged edition in the United Kingdom in 2009 by Alma Books"--Title page verso
Sophia was first introduced to Leo Tolstoy in 1862 when she was 18 years old. At 34, Tolstoy was 16 years her senior. On 17 September 1862 the couple became formally engaged after Tolstoy gave Sophia a written proposal of marriage, [1] marrying a week later in Moscow. At the time of their marriage, Leo Tolstoy was well known as a novelist ...
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- Sergei (1863-1947) "Seryozha (diminutive of Sergei) is intelligent, has a mathematical mind and is sensitive to art," is what Leo Tolstoy himself wrote about his eldest son when he was a child.
- Tatyana (1864-1950) "Everyone says she's like Sonya [diminutive of Sofia, Tolstoy's wife] and I believe it," Tolstoy wrote about his eldest daughter.
- Ilya (1866-1933) "He is big-boned, fair-skinned with rosy cheeks, radiant. He studies poorly and is always thinking about something he is told not to think about.
- Lev (1869-1945) All his life, Lev (Leo) Jr. strove to come out of the shadow of his famous father. He attempted to become a sculptor (and even studied with Auguste Rodin in Paris), as well as a public figure and a writer.
Oct 16, 2007 · Sophia Tolstoy/National Geographic. One of the most famous sentences in literature is the opening of Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is ...
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 ...
Jan 1, 1985 · English readers have cause to celebrate this first complete English translation of Sophia Tolstoy's extensive diaries, which cover the years from 1862 to 1910. When she married Count Leo Tolstoy, the author of War and Peace , husband and wife regularly exchanged diaries.
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Jan 1, 2001 · Sofia Tolstaya, Cathy Porter (Translator), Doris Lessing (Introduction) 3.94. 416 ratings72 reviews. After marrying Count Leo Tolstoy, the renowned author of Anna Karenina and War and Peace, Sofia Tolstoy kept a detailed diary until his death in 1910. Her life was not an easy one: she idealized her husband but was tormented by him.
