When Sofia Behrs married Count Leo Tolstoy, the author of "War and
Peace", husband and wife regularly exchanged diaries covering the
years from 1862 to 1910. Sofia's life was not an easy one: she
idealized her husband, but was tormented by him; even her many
children were not an unmitigated blessing. In the background of her
life was one of the most turbulent periods of Russian history: the
transition from old feudal Russia to the 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 the
diaries are most valuable and moving. They are a testament to 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. It contains a
forward by Doris Lessing.
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