In November 1910, Count Lev Tolstoy died at a remote Russian
railway station attended by the world's media. He was eighty-two
years old and had lived a remarkable and long life during one of
the most turbulent periods of Russian history. Born into a
privileged aristocratic family, he seemed set to join the ranks of
degenerate Russian noblemen, but fighting in the Crimean war
alongside rank and file soldiers opened his eyes to Russia's social
problems and he threw himself into teaching the peasantry to read
and write. After his marriage he wrote War and Peace and Anna
Karenina, both regarded as two of the greatest novels in world
literature. Rosamund Bartlett's exceptional biography of this
brilliant, maddening and contrary man draws on key Russian sources,
including the many fascinating new materials which have been
published about Tolstoy and his legacy since the collapse of the
Soviet Union.
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