Лев Николаевич Толстой
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«My life often comes back to me, I mean, I usually look at my life from the point of view of that goodness and evil, that I have been doing.
I understood, that my life could be divided into four periods...»

«Happy, happy years of my childhood, they will never return! Who doesn’t love and cherish his reminiscences of them! Such reminiscences refresh and uplift my soul and serve as a source of my best pleasures.»

 

1828 - 1841

1828. Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy was born at Yasnaya Polyana.

1830. Death of Leo Tolstoy's mother.

1837. Death of father. Move to Moscow.

1841. Death of the trustee, countess Osten-Saken and moving to Kazan to the aunt P.I.Jushkovoj.

 

«Tolstoy is the prophet who does not know any other measures, any other points of view or opinion except the truth and justice. We can see the truth where he saw it, and we can be sure of the long-standing power of the evil, which he refused to admit.»
Semyon Frank

 
   
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