A biographical memoir of great Russian writer Count Tolstoy by his son.
Translated by George Calderon
Illustrated with Numerous Photographs
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Contents
Description of the Characters of his Children, from one of my Father’s Letters Impressions of Early Childhood my Mother, Father, Grandmother, Hannah, the Three Dunyashas Lessons the School 3
The Household Nikolai the Cook Alexey Stepanytch Agafya Mikhailovna Marya Afanasyevna Sergei Petrovitch 19
Yasnaya Polyana the House Portraits of Ancestors my Father’s Study 35
Christmas Trees it’s the Architect’s Fault Prokhor Anke Pie 54
Aunt Tanya Uncle Kostya the Dyakofs Prince Urusof 64
Journey to Samara 78
Games my Father’s Jokes Books Lessons 96
Riding the Green Stick Skating 108
Sport 119
Anna Karenina 134
The Letter-box 146
Sergei Nikolayevitch Tolstoy 173
Fet Strakhof Gay 195
Turgenyef 212
Garshin 235
The First Dark People the Assassination of Alexander ii the Spy 242
The end of the Seventies the Great Change the Main Road 255
The Move to Moscow Syntayef the Census Fyodorof Solovyof 269
Manual Labor Boot-making Hay-making 281
Chapter
Xx my Father as a Father 303
Xxi my Marriage my Father’s Letters Itchka his Death 330
Xxii Help for the Famine-stricken 344
Xxiii my Father’s Illness in the Crimea Attitude Towards Death Desire for Suffering my Father’s Will Conclusion 360
Xxiv Masha’s Death my Father’s Diary Fainting Fits Weakness 386
Xxv my Aunt Masha Tolstoy 386
Xxvi my Father’s Will Conclusion 392
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