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When he arrived in Moscow in 1851, a young Leo Tolstoy set himself three immediate aims: to gamble, to marry, and to obtain a post. At that time he managed only the first. The writers momentous life would be full of forced breaks and abrupt departures, from the death of his beloved parents and tortuous courtship to a deep spiritual crisis and an abandonment of the social class into which he had been born. He also made several attempts to break up with literature, but each time he returned to writing. In this original and comprehensive biography, Andrei Zorin skillfully pieces together the life of one of the greatest novelists of all time. He offers both an innovative account of Tolstoys deepest feelings, emotions, and motives, as reflected in his personal diaries and letters, and a brilliant interpretation of his major works, including his celebrated novels on contemporary Russian society, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, and his significant philosophical writings.

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Leo Tolstoy

Andrei Zorin

REAKTION BOOKS

In memory of Boris (Barukh) Berman

Published by Reaktion Books Ltd

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First published 2020

Copyright Andrei Zorin 2020

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No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers

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A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

eISBN: 978 1 78914 256 3

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Abbreviations

AK

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, trans. George Gibian (London and New York, 1995)

AT

Alexandra Tolstoy, Otets. Zhizn Lva Tolstogo, 2 vols (New York, 1953)

Ch-Ls

Anton Chekhov, A. P. Polnoe sobranie sochinenii i pisem: Pisma v dvenadtsati tomah, 12 vols (Moscow, 197483)

CW

Leo Tolstoy, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii, 90 vols (Moscow, 192864)

Ds

Tolstoys Diaries, trans. R. F. Christian (London, 1994)

Kuz

Tatiana Kuzminskaya, Moia zhizn doma i v Yasnoi Polyane (Tula, 1973)

LNT & AAT

L. N. Tolstoy i A. A. Tolstaya: Perepiska, 18571903 (Moscow, 2011)

Ls

Tolstoys Letters, ed. and trans. R. F. Christian, 2 vols (New York, 1978)

Mak

Dushan Makovitsky, U Tolstogo, 19041910: Yasnopolianskie zapiski, Literaturnoe nasledstvo, xc/14 (1979)

SAT-Ds

Sofia Tolstaya, Dnevniki, 2 vols (Moscow, 1978)

SAT-ML

Sofia Tolstaya, Moia zhizn, 2 vols (Moscow, 2011)

TP

Leo Tolstoy, Perepiska s russkimi pisateliami, ed. S. Rozanova, 2 vols (Moscow, 1978)

TSF

Tolstoys Short Fiction, trans. Michael Kats (London and New York, 2008)

WP

Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, trans. George Gibian (London and New York, 1996).

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An Ambitious Orphan

In May 1878, finishing Anna Karenina and in the early stages of the deepest spiritual crisis he had ever experienced, Tolstoy started drafting his memoirs, which he provisionally called My Life. In one day he wrote several disjointed fragments describing his impressions of certain events from his childhood. He did not complete his memoirs and never returned to these fragments, the first of which was as follows:

Here are my first recollections. I am bound up, I want to free my hands and I cannot do it. I shout and weep and my cries are unpleasant to me, but I cannot stop. There were people bent over me, I do not remember who they were, and it all happened in semi-darkness, but I do remember that there were two of them, they are worried by my cries, but do not unbind me, which I want them to do, and therefore I cry even louder. It seems that for them it is necessary [that I must be bound up], while I know that it is not necessary, and I want to prove it to them and I indulge in crying that repels me, but which is uncontainable. I feel the injustice and cruelty not of people, because they pity me, but of fate and pity for myself. I do not know and shall never know what this was about... but it is certain that this was the first and the most powerful impression of my life. And what is memorable is not my cries, or my suffering, but the complex, contradictory nature of the impression. I want freedom, it wont harm anyone and yet they keep torturing me. They pity me and they tie me up, and I, who needs everything, am weak and they are strong. (CW, XXIII, pp. 46970)

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