Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Last Days of Tolstoy. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by V. G. (Vladimir Grigorevich) Chertkov, which is now, at last, again available to you. Get the PDF and EPUB NOW as well. Included in your purchase you have The Last Days of Tolstoy in EPUB AND PDF format to read on any tablet, eReader, ...
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Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Last Days of Tolstoy. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by V. G. (Vladimir Grigorevich) Chertkov, which is now, at last, again available to you. Get the PDF and EPUB NOW as well. Included in your purchase you have The Last Days of Tolstoy in EPUB AND PDF format to read on any tablet, eReader, desktop, laptop or smartphone simultaneous - Get it NOW. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside The Last Days of Tolstoy: Look inside the book: 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 intimate diary)-The mistake of passing censure upon his life at Yasnaya-He fulfilled that which God required of him-His love for his wife and his confidence in her-His self-sacrifice for her sake-We must believe in his conscientiousness-The heroism of his life in his family. ...Therefore in order to bring to light the causes of Tolstoy's 'going away, ' it is extremely important that the greatest possible number of his contemporaries should record and preserve for future generations the facts known to them as well as their thoughts and reminiscences; and it is desirable, too, that this should be done particularly by those of them who had occasion to stand nearest to Tolstoy's personal and family life. ...But it is quite a different matter to spend several decades with such a wife as Sofya Andreyevna without running away from her, and still preserving in his heart pity and love for her, and this to the accompaniment of the unceasing mockery of his enemies and misunderstanding and censure from the majority of his friends-so to live from day to day, from year to year, not seeing and not foreseeing any escape but his own death; to endure, in doing so, all that Leo Nikolaevitch has to endure, being periodically made ill by it and almost dying, and not only to have not the smallest blame or bitterness in his heart, but, on the contrary, to be always blaming himself for lack of patience and love-this really is the highest consistency on the part of Leo Nikolaevitch. About V. G. (Vladimir Grigorevich) Chertkov, the Author: Describing his parents in one of his diary entries, he wrote: "That's how I grew up, assured of my own innate advantage over other people, proud of the dignity of my parents, their relatives and friends, entourage of servants, rising from their seats in the ante-room when I passed from my rooms into my parents' part of the house, swimming in all kinds of luxury and almost not knowing rejection in satisfaction of my desires." ...Yet while yielding to all the enjoyment that was offered by life in the circle of golden youth, unaware of either external or internal obstacles for the realization of his desires, Chertkov from time to time felt that there was something wrong in his life and strove to find some moral law that would subordinate his behavior.
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