Diary
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Diary
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The diary that Tatyana Lvovna Tolstaya kept from the age of fourteen in 1878 represents a unique record of the turning point in Russia's history in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and, most interestingly and importantly, of the life of her great father, Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy.
Vyacheslav Ivanov, who recommended Tatyana Lvovna's Diary for publication in an English publishing house, wrote that it has "psychological, socio-historical, and literary-biographical significance for the study of Leo Tolstoy's personality, whose presence and influence are felt throughout her notes about her life in Yasnaya Polyana and her girlhood romances, even where she doesn't speak of him directly."
T. L. Sukhotina-Tolstoy (1864–1950), Leo Tolstoy's eldest daughter, was a vibrant personality, a gifted artist, an intelligent, and charming woman. Raised and raised for many years in an extraordinary family, frequented by her father's most famous contemporaries—I. S. Turgenev, A. P. Chekhov, I. E. Repin, N. N. Ge, and S. I. Taneyev—she absorbed the culture of the greatest era in Russian artistic life.
Tatyana Lvovna's diary reflects everything that troubled her: the joyful entertainments and hobbies of her youth, unhappy loves, her late marriage, the birth of her long-awaited daughter Tanechka, the death of her adored father, the terrible events of the early 20th century, and—constantly and invariably—tormented reflections on the meaning of life.
The diary of T. L. Sukhotina-Tolstoy, written from 1878 to 1932, is published in its entirety for the first time, without abridgements or editorial changes.
Vyacheslav Ivanov, who recommended Tatyana Lvovna's Diary for publication in an English publishing house, wrote that it has "psychological, socio-historical, and literary-biographical significance for the study of Leo Tolstoy's personality, whose presence and influence are felt throughout her notes about her life in Yasnaya Polyana and her girlhood romances, even where she doesn't speak of him directly."
T. L. Sukhotina-Tolstoy (1864–1950), Leo Tolstoy's eldest daughter, was a vibrant personality, a gifted artist, an intelligent, and charming woman. Raised and raised for many years in an extraordinary family, frequented by her father's most famous contemporaries—I. S. Turgenev, A. P. Chekhov, I. E. Repin, N. N. Ge, and S. I. Taneyev—she absorbed the culture of the greatest era in Russian artistic life.
Tatyana Lvovna's diary reflects everything that troubled her: the joyful entertainments and hobbies of her youth, unhappy loves, her late marriage, the birth of her long-awaited daughter Tanechka, the death of her adored father, the terrible events of the early 20th century, and—constantly and invariably—tormented reflections on the meaning of life.
The diary of T. L. Sukhotina-Tolstoy, written from 1878 to 1932, is published in its entirety for the first time, without abridgements or editorial changes.
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