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227.

Sophia Tolstoy,
My Life
, part 2.

228.

Tolstoy’s Letters
, vol.1, 240–41.

229.

Tatyana Tolstoy,
Tolstoy Remembered
, 110.

230.

The Diaries of Sophia Tolstoy
, 845.

231.

Sophia Tolstoy,
My Life
, Part 2.

232.

Tolstoy’s Letters
, vol. 1, 235.

233.

SA letter to TA, July 8, 1873.

234.

Ibid.

235.

Sophia Tolstoy,
My Life
, part 2.

236.

SA letter to TA, August 25, 1873.

237.

Sophia Tolstoy,
My Life
, part 2.

238.

Ibid.

239.

SA letter to LN, July 27, 1871.

240.

The Diaries of Sophia Tolstoy
, 50.

241.

Sophia Tolstoy,
My Life
, part 2.

242.

Leo Tolstoy,
Anna Karenina
, 607.

243.

Sophia Tolstoy,
My Life
, part 2.

244.

Ibid.

245.

SA letter to TA, December 19, 1873.

246.

SA letter to TA, February 6, 1874.

247.

SA letter to TA, December 10, 1874.

248.

Ibid.

249.

SA letter to TA, February 23, 1874.

250.

Tatyana Tolstoy,
Tolstoy Remembered
, 49.

251.

Ilya Tolstoy,
Tolstoy, My Father
(Chicago: Cowles, 1971), 96.

252.

Tolstoy’s Letters
, vol. 1, 293.

253.

Nikolai Strakhov’s letter to LN, February 1877.

254.

Nikolai Gusev,
Chronicle of the Life and Works of L.N. Tolstoy
(Moscow: State Literary House, 1958), vol. 1, 490.

255.

Sophia Tolstoy,
My Life
, part 3.

256.

The Diaries of Sophia Tolstoy
, 850.

257.

Nikolai Gusev,
Chronicle
, vol. 1, 513.

258.

Ibid., 516.

259.

SA letter to TA, November, 1879.

260.

Sophia Tolstoy,
My Life
, part 4.

261.

SA letter to TA, November 29, 1879.

262.

SA letter to TA, January 9, 1880.

263.

LN letter to Vladimir Stasov, May 1, 1881.

264.

Tolstoy’s Letters
, vol. 2, 340.

265.

LN letter to SA, August 2, 1881.

266.

Sophia Tolstoy,
My Life
, part 3.

267.

SA letter to TA, February 19, 1880.

268.

Sophia Tolstoy,
My Life
, part 3.

269.

Ibid., part 4.

270.

LN letter to SA, November 10, 1883.

271.

See more on this in Aylmer Maude,
The Life of Tolstoy: Later Years
(London: Oxford University Press, 1930), vol. 2, 249–265.

272.

SA letter to TA, March 3, 1881.

273.

Tatyana Tolstoy,
Tolstoy Remembered
, 193.

274.

Pointed out in Leo Tolstoy,
Plays: Volume Three
, trans. Marvin Kantor with Tanya Tulchinsky (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1998). Drawn from their conversations, this play is believed to be Tolstoy’s most autobiographical work.

275.

Sophia Tolstoy,
My Life
, part 3.

276.

Leo Tolstoy,
And the Light Shineth in Darkness
, Act 1, scene 19.
Plays: Volume Three, 39
.

277.

Tolstoy L.N.,
Jubilee Edition
, vol. 83, 579.

278.

Sophia Tolstoy,
My Life
, part 4.

279.

Ibid.

280.

LN letter to Chertkov, June 24, 1884.

281.

SA letter to TA, April 12, 1885.

282.

SA letter to LN, February 25, 1893.

283.

SA letter to LN, October 29, 1884.

284.

SA letter to LN, March 5–6, 1882.

285.

Tolstoy’s Letters
, vol. 2, 392. Despite writing this, Tolstoy attempted to sell a limited printing of one treatise,
What I Believe
, at 25 rubles. In comparison, the twelve-volume edition Sophia produced cost 18 rubles.

286.

SA letter to TA, fall 1885.

287.

SA letter to TA, December 20, 1885.

288.

Tatyana Tolstoy,
Tolstoy Remembered
, 202.

289.

SA letter to LN, December 23, 1885.

290.

SA letter to LN, December 24, 1885.

291.

SA letter to LN, March 28, 1889.

292.

Sophia Tolstoy,
My Life
, part 4.

293.

SA letter to TA, January 9, 1885.

294.

Strakhov’s letter first published in
Yasnaya Polyana Almanach
, Tula, 1978.

295.

SA letter to LN, May 5, 1886.

296.

Tolstoy’s Letters
, vol. 2, 402.

297.

The Diaries of Sophia Tolstoy
, 79.

298.

Aylmer Maude,
The Life of Tolstoy: Later Years
, vol. 2, 478.

299.

The Diaries of Sophia Tolstoy
, 77.

300.

Ibid., 78.

301.

SA letter to TA, March 13, 1889.

302.

The Diaries of Sophia Tolstoy
, 371.

303.

Tolstoy’s Diaries
, vol.1, 271.

304.

Sophia Tolstoy,
My Life
, part 5.

305.

Ivan Bunin,
The Liberation of Tolstoy
(Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2001), 55.

306.

Nikolai Strakhov’s letter to Tolstoy, April 24, 1890.

307.

The Diaries of Sophia Tolstoy
, 141.

308.

Sophia Tolstoy,
My Life
, part 5.

309.

Aylmer Maude,
The Life of Tolstoy: Later Years
, vol. 2, 400.

310.

Ibid., 158.

311.

One pood equals about 36 pounds.

312.

The Diaries of Sophia Tolstoy
, 168.

313.

Ibid., 169.

314.

LN letter to SA, November 23, 1891.

315.

SA letter to LN, November 20, 1891.

316.

Tolstoy’s Letters
, vol. 2, 489.

317.

SA letter to TA, January 8, 1892.

318.

SA letter to LN, September 16, 1893.

319.

The Diaries of Sophia Tolstoy
, 73.

320.

LN letter to SA, September 26, 1896.

321.

Tolstoy’s Letters
, vol. 2, 517.

322.

Sophia Tolstoy,
My Life
, part 3.

323.

SA letter to Leonila Annenkova, fall 1896.

324.

SA letter to LN, October 12, 1895.

325.

Tolstoy’s Diaries
, vol. 2, 418.

326.

Tolstoy’s Letters
, vol. 2, 557.

327.

SA letter to LN, May 14, 1897.

328.

SA letter to LN, September 11, 1894.

329.

SA letter to LN, October 29, 1895.

330.

Sophia Tolstoy,
My Life
, part 7.

331.

The Diaries of Sophia Tolstoy
, 916.

332.

Ibid., 374.

333.

Ibid., 443.

334.

Ibid.

335.

Ibid., 420.

336.

Ibid., 447.

337.

Ibid., 457.

338.

Ibid., 442.

339.

Ibid.

340.

SA letter to TA, March 28, 1904.

341.

The memoir
My Life
was published in English. Sophia Andreyevna Tolstaya,
My Life
trans. John Woodsworth and Arkadi Klioutchanski (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2010). Unfortunately this translation does not accurately render Sophia’s style.

342.

Tolstoy’s Diaries
, vol. 2, 555–56.

343.

SA letter to TA, November 26, 1906.

344.

Alexandra Tolstaia,
Doch
´ (Moskva: Vagrius, 2000), 271.

345.

Alexander Goldenweiser,
Lev Tolstoy: Reminiscences
(Moscow: Zakharov, 2002), 166.

346.

Georgy Orekhanov,
V.G. Chertkov v zhizni L.N. Tolstogo
(Moskva: PSTGU, 2009), 152.

347.

Tolstoy’s Diaries
, vol. 2, 589.

348.

Ibid., 678.

349.

Tolstoy’s Letters
, vol. 2, 703.

350.

The Diaries of Sophia Tolstoy
, 536.

351.

Ibid., 498.

352.

Tolstoy’s Diaries
, vol. 2, 683.

353.

Tatyana Komarova,
On the Flight and Death of L. N. Tolstoy
(Yasnaya Polyana Yearbook, 1992).

354.

Sergei Belov,
Zhena pisatelya
, 180.

355.

Sophia Tolstoy,
Autobiography
, 55.

356.

Tikhon Polner,
Tolstoy and His Wife
(Moscow: Nash Dom—L’Age d’Homme, 2000), 195–96. Translation is by the author.

357.

Tolstoy’s Letters
, vol. 2, 562.

358.

Nadezhda Mandelstam,
Hope Against Hope
(New York: Atheneum, 1970), 211.

359.

Nadezhda Mandelstam,
Hope Abandoned
(New York: Atheneum, 1974), 507.

360.

Osip i Nadezhda Mandelshtamy v rasskazah sovremennikov
, 297.

361.

Roberta Reeder,
Anna Akhmatova
(New York: Picador USA, 1994), 18.

362.

Nadezhda Mandelstam,
Hope Abandoned
, 310.