The Death of Tolstoy. Russia on the Eve, Astapovo Station, 1910, Hardback - William S. Nickell

In the middle of the night of October 28, 1910, Leo Tolstoy, the most famous man in Russia, vanished. A secular saint revered for his literary geni...

The Death of Ivan Ilyich, first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after ...

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