A biographical memoir of great Russian writer Count Tolstoy by his son.

Translated by George Calderon
Illustrated with Numerous Photographs

You can get the book here and here

Follow us on

Twitter https://x.com/MirTitles

Mastadon https://mastodon.social/@mirtitles

Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/mirtitles.bsky.social

Tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/mirtitles

Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/mir-titles

Fork us on gitlab https://gitlab.com/mirtitles

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