Category: Biographies
Dosev's mistake, common to many--Tolstoy's true motives--His independence of the opinion of men--The limit of his yielding--In order to go away he had to feel the necessity for doing so--It was easier to go than to remain--Tolstoy's sufferings at Yasnaya Polyana (from his inti...
Dosev's mistake, common to many--Tolstoy's true motives--His independence of the opinion of men--The limit of his yielding--In order to go away he had to feel the necessity for...
2. Chapter I.--The conditions of life at Yasnaya Polyana 183. Chapter II.--Change for the worse in his wife's attitude to him 26Change for the worse in the conditions of life at Yasnaya with regard to the management of the estate, to the relations with the peasants, and in his wife's attitude to him--Tol...
4. Chapter III.--The history of the will 32Tolstoy's attitude to property in general and to literary property in particular--His differences with his wife on that score--Tolstoy's firmness in renouncing the copyright of...
5. Chapter VI.--Mental agony 586. Chapter VIII.--Tolstoy's relation to his wife 677. Chapter X.--The significance of Tolstoy's going away and of the8. PART IIIThe growth of his inner consciousness during the second period of his life. Extracts from the diary for 1884--Differences with his wife--On the border of despair--Feeling of sol...
9. PART IAmong other things you say of him: "Nothing is worse than slavery. And worse still is slavery to a spoilt child who has been spoilt by oneself. But I know nothing worse in the w...
10. CHAPTER IAt first sight it may seem that if he did well in remaining so long with his wife, he ought not to have abandoned her in the end; or, on the contrary, if he was right in going a...
11. CHAPTER IIAnd so in the last few months before Leo Nikolaevitch left Yasnaya Polyana he was subjected in an intensified form to all the agonising conditions which had for many years made...
12. CHAPTER IIIIn order to understand why Sofya Andreyevna's attitude to Leo Nikolaevitch was so exasperated, and what impelled her to treat him so cruelly, it is essential to have some concep...
13. CHAPTER IVThe only intervals of freedom and rest which Leo Nikolaevitch could enjoy from the indescribably painful conditions of life at Yasnaya Polyana at that period were afforded him b...
14. CHAPTER VThe last and most painful period of Leo Nikolaevitch's life at Yasnaya Polyana began in June 1910, when, on a visit at my summer bungalow at Meshtcherskoe, in the province of Mo...
15. CHAPTER VIIt will be readily understood that no health could hold out against such torments lasting over several months at a stretch, no less severe, it may be said, than the tortures of...
16. CHAPTER VIIIt happened very simply. On the night of the 27th October, at a time when it was supposed that Leo Nikolaevitch was asleep, as he lay in bed he heard and saw through a crack in...
17. CHAPTER VIIIAfter his departure Leo Nikolaevitch never for a minute repented what he had done, and never considered the idea of his return to Sofya Andreyevna. When his daughter Alexandra L...
18. CHAPTER IXFor us, the nearest friends of Leo Nikolaevitch, who watched step by step what was taking place at Yasnaya Polyana during the last days of his presence there, the reason why he...
19. CHAPTER XIn an indirect way Leo Nikolaevitch's going away performed a great service in a social sense by manifesting clearly that his living beforehand for so long with his family was no...
20. PART IIII think that to complete what has been said here about Tolstoy's "going away" it would be desirable to look rather more attentively at the growth of Leo Nikolaevitch's inner con...