Autobiography of Countess Tolstoy

Autobiography of Countess Tolstoy

THE manuscript of the autobiography of Sophie Andreevna Tolstoy exists among the documents of the late director of the Russian Library, Professor Semen Afanasevich Vengerov, which, in accordance with the will of the deceased, have been handed over to the Library. The Library is now in the Petrograd Institute of Learning, and the documents form a special section in the Institute under the title: "The Archives of S. A. Vengerov." The history of the manuscript is as follows. At the end of July, 1913, S. A. Vengerov sent a letter to S. A. Tolstoy asking her to write and send him her autobiography which he proposed to publish. We do not know the details of S. A. Vengerov's letter, but from the replies of S. A. Tolstoy which are printed below we may conclude that Professor Vengerov enclosed in his letter to S. A. Tolstoy a questionnaire, and that, besides the usual questions which he was accustomed to send out broadcast to authors and men of letters, he put a number of additional questions, especially for S. A. T., asking for light upon certain moments in the history of the life and creative activity of Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy, and upon the time and causes of the differences between the husband and wife, the beginning of that formidable drama which took place in the Tolstoy family. S. A. T. answered immediately; she wrote to Vengerov as follows:[A] ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 38027
Author: Tolstaia, S. A. (Sofia Andreevna)
Release Date: Nov 15, 2011
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Editor: Spiridonov, V. S. (Vasilii Spiridonovich), 1878-1952

Translator: Koteliansky, S. S. (Samuel Solomonovitch), 1880-1955, Woolf, Leonard, 1880-1969