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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. She lived against the background of one of the most turbulent periods in her country’s history, as old feudal Russia was transformed by three revolutions and three major international wars. Yet it is as Sofia Tolstoy’s own life story—the study of one woman’s private experience—that these diaries are most valuable and moving. They reveal a woman of tremendous vital energy and poetic sensibility who, in the face of provocation and suffering, continued to strive for the higher things in life and to remain indomitable.
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The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy, Doris Lessing, Cathy Porter, Sofja Andrejewna Tolstaja
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- Released
- 2010
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- Title
- The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Released
- 2010
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 639
- ISBN10
- 0061997412
- ISBN13
- 9780061997419
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, True Stories, Biographies, Classics, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Biographies, Russia, Russian Literature
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
- Description
- 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. She lived against the background of one of the most turbulent periods in her country’s history, as old feudal Russia was transformed by three revolutions and three major international wars. Yet it is as Sofia Tolstoy’s own life story—the study of one woman’s private experience—that these diaries are most valuable and moving. They reveal a woman of tremendous vital energy and poetic sensibility who, in the face of provocation and suffering, continued to strive for the higher things in life and to remain indomitable.