Leo Tolstoy

5 A. A. Fet, Moi vospominaniia, 1848–1889 (Moscow, 1890), vol. I, p. 106.

6 V. S. Morozov, ‘Vospominaniia uchenika iasnopolianskoi shkoly’, in L. N. Tolstoy v vospominaniiakh sovremennikov (Moscow, 1960), vol. I, p. 110.

2  A Married Genius

1 N. A. Nekrasov, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii i pisem v piatnadtsati tomakh (Leningrad, 1972), vol. IV, p. 83.

2 Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace: Original Version, trans. Andrew Bromfield (London, 2007), pp. 872–3.

3 Ilya Tolstoy, Tolstoy: My Father: Reminiscences, trans. Ann Dunnigan (London, 1972), p. 56.

4 Trans. Alex Wilbraham.

5 Ilya Tolstoy, Tolstoy, My Father, p. 60.

6 A. A. Fet, Polnoe sobranie stikhotvorenii (Leningrad, 1959), p. 360.

7 Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

, trans. E.F.J. Payne (New York, 1966), vol. II, pp. 573–4.

8 Perepiska L. N. Tolstogo s N. N. Strakhovym, 1870–1894 (St Petersburg, 1914), p. 55.

9 Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, vol. II, p. 557.

10 E. V. Obolenskaya, ‘Moia mat’ i Lev Nikolaevich’, in Letopisi gosudarstvennogo literaturnogo muzeia (Moscow, 1938), vol. II, p. 279.

11 Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, vol. II, p. 558.

12 Nekrasov, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii, vol. III, p. 72.

13 E. G. Babaev, Lev Tolstoi i russkaia zhurnalistika ego epokhi (Moscow, 1993), p. 133.

3  A Lonely Leader

1 Lidya Ginzburg, Notes from the Blockade (London, 2016), p. 21.

2 A. N. Wilson, Tolstoy (London, 2012), p. 325.

3 V. F. Bulgakov, Poslednii god zhizni Tolstogo

(Moscow, 1960), p. 229.

4 S. A. Tolstoy letter to T. A. Kuzminskaya, 10 December 1874 (Archive of Tolstoy Museum in Moscow).

5 K. P. Pobedonostsev, Pis’ma Pobedonostseva Aleksandru III (Moscow, 1926), vol. II, p. 253.

6 Cited in John Simmons, Leo Tolstoy (London, 1949), p. 523.

7 L. D. Opul’skaya, L. N. Tolstoy: Materialy k biografii s 1892 po 1899 god. (Moscow, 1998), p. 139.

8 Ivan Bunin, The Liberation of Tolstoy (Evanston, IL, 2001), p. 50. Bunin mistakenly referred to Tolstoy’s sick son as ‘Kolia’.

9 A. B. Goldenveizer, Vblizi Tolstogo (Moscow, 1959), p. 57.

10 F. I. Tiutchev, Polnoe sobranie stikhotovorenii (Leningrad, 1987), p. 127 [trans. Alex Wilbraham].

11 P. P. Gnedich, ‘Iz zapisnoi knizhki’, in Tolstoy v vospominaniakh sovremennikov (Moscow, 1960), I, p. 534.

12 Opul’skaya, L. N. Tolstoy: Materialy, p. 112.

13 E. V. Obolenskaya, ‘Moia mat’ i Lev Nikolaevich’, in Letopisi gosudarstvennogo literaturnogo muzeia

(Moscow, 1938), vol. II, p. 299.

14 Ibid., p. 315.

15 A. M. Gorky, ‘Lev Tolstoy’, Tolstoy v vospominaniakh sovremennikov, vol. II, pp. 431, 450.

16 M. Gorky and R. Rolland, Perepiska (Moscow, 1996), pp. 87–8.

17 S. L. Tolstoy, Ocherki bylogo (Tula, 1965), p. 227.

18 Obolenskaya, ‘Moia mat’ i Lev Nikolaevich’, p. 302.

19 Tatyana Tolstoy, Tolstoy Remembered (London, 1977), p. 164.

20 Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy. Yubileinyi sbornik (Moscow–Leningrad, 1928), pp. 91–2.

21 Goldenveizer, Vblizi Tolstogo, p. 234.

4  A Fugitive Celebrity

1 E. I. Popov, ‘Ortryvochnye vospominaniia o L’ve Tolstom’, in Letopisi gosudarstvennogo literaturnogo muzeia

(Moscow, 1938), vol. II, p. 367.

2 Tatyana Tolstoy, Tolstoy Remembered (London, 1977), p. 180.

3 A. A. Blok, Sobranie sochinenii (Moscow and Leningrad, 1963), vol. VII, p. 87.

4 E. E. Gorbunova-Posadova, Drug Tolstogo–Maria Aleksandrovna Schmidt (Moscow, 1929), p. 95.

5 E. V. Obolenskaya, ‘Moia mat’ i Lev Nikolaevich’, in Letopisi gosudarstvennogo literaturnogo muzeia (Moscow, 1938), vol. II, p. 314.

6 V. B. Remizov, Ukhod Tolstogo (Moscow, 2017), p. 506.

7 Tatyana Tolstoy, Tolstoy Remembered, p. 241.

Select Bibliography

Tolstoy’s Works

Anna Karenina, trans. George Gibian (London and New York, 1995)

Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, trans. Dora O’Brien (Richmond, 2006)

The Cossacks and Other Early Stories, trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude (Ware, 2012)