Sergey Tolstoy: Sketches of the Past.
Letter, March 1876.
Letter, February 21, 1876.
Letter to Golokhvastov, March 1876.
Letter, April 9, 1876.
Letter, November 8-9, 1875. Twenty-seven years later, however, he looked back on this period of his life with envy, as shown by his conversation with Elpatvevsky on the deck of a ship in 1902. "'How old are you?' he suddenly asked," wrote Elpatycvsky in his Literary Reminiscences. "I replied that I was forty-eight. To my great surprise his expression became serious, almost forbidding, he looked up at mc with envy and, turning aside, muttered sadly, Tortv-cight. I was doing my best work. I never worked as well as then.' lie remained silent for a long time; then he said, less to mc than to himself, T was writing Anna Karenina
Letter to Strakhov, June 8, 1876.
Diary of Countess Tolstoy, March 3, 1877.
S. A. Bchrs: Reminiscences of Tolstoy.
Letter, April 5, 1877.
Letter, April 21, 1877.
Anna Karenina, Part VIII, Chapters XV, XVI and variants.
Diary of Countess Tolstoy, September 12, 1877.
Ilya Tolstoy: Reminiscences of Tolstoy, by His Son.
Part V, Chapter 2
Obolensky: Two Meetings with L. Tolstoy.
Letter to Strakhov, April 26, 1876.
Literary Heritage, Nos. 37-38, p. 426. Meetings between Zhirkevich and Tolstoy.
Letter, June 13, 1877.
Letter, April 1877.
Letter, January 25, 1876.
Article in Russian World for 1877 (No. 28). To this clay it has been impossible to discover who wrote these lines.
Pari V, Chapter 3
Confession.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Notebooks of Leo Tolstoy, entry of March 12, 1S70.
Confession.
Letter, March 1876.
Starets Ambrose was Dostoyevsky's model for starets Zossima in The Brothers Karamazov.
Tolstoy was bom three years after the Decembrist uprising, which took place on December 14, 1825.
Letter, January 27, 1878.
Diary, November 1, 1878.
As told by Stepan Behrs in his reminiscences an unpublished passage quoted by Gusev in Volume III of his Material for a Biography of l.eo Tolstoy.
Loose note, December 6, 1881.
P. Sergeyenko: Contemporary Views of Tolstoy.
Letter, October 27, 1878.
Letter, November 15 (27), 1878.
Letter, November 22, 1878.
I.a Guerre et la Paix, roman historique. Traduit par une Russe. Paris, 1879, 3 volumes.
Letter, December 28, 1879 (January 9, 1880).
Notebook No. 10 (1880).
Ibid.
Letter, October 4, 1879.
Notebook No. 7.
Letter, January 23, 1880.
Letter, February 2, 1880.
Reminiscences of Ivakin, in Literary Heritage, Volume 69.
Letter, January 8, 1880.
Letter, February 14, 1880.
Sergey Tolstoy: Sketches of the Past.
Letter, May 28, 1880.
Letter, early February 1881.
Rusanov: Visit to Yasnaya Polyana.
Said by Tolstoy, as quoted by Maxim Gorky.
Letter from Dostoyevsky to his wife, February 7. 1875.
Letter to Tolstoy, November 28, 1883.
Letter, November 30, 1883.
Ilya Tolstoy: Reminiscences of Tolstoy, by His Son.
Letter, June 15, 1881.
Sergey Lvovich, Tolstoy's eldest son.
Letter, April 22, 1881.
Diary, May 15, 1881.
Letter, June 11, 1881.
Reminiscences by Arbuzov.
Polonsky: Reminiscences.
Letter from Turgenev to Urusov, December 1, 1880.
Letter, July 24, 1881.
Letter, July 30, 1881, quoted by Biryukov.
Sergey Tolstoy: Sketches of the Past.
Pari V, Chapter 4
Diary of Countess Tolstoy, October 27, 1878.
Ibid., November 5, 1878.
Ibid.9 October-November 1878.
lbid.y October 16, 1878.
Ibid., October 25, 1878.
Ibid., November 19, 1878.
Letter, November 15, 1881.
Sergey Tolstoy: Sketches of the Past.
Quoted by Biryukov.
letter, January 30, 1882.
Letter, March 3, 1882.
Stasov: The Life and Work of N. N. Cdy.
Quoted by Sergey Tolstoy in Sketches of the Past.
According to the Remimscefices of Sergey and Ilya Tolstoy.
Letter to Alexeyev, November 7, 1882.
Letter, January 15, 1883.
Diary, December 22, 1882.
Letter, May 1, 1882.
Letter, Oetober 31-Novcmber 12, 1882.
Letter, May 25, 1883.
Sergey Tolstoy: Sketches of the Past.
Letters to Sergey Tolstoy, September 29, 186s, and to Fet, October 7, 1865, on Enongh!
letter, October 9, 1883.
Part VI, Chapter 1
Diary, March 16 and 23, 1884.
Ilya Tolstoy: Reminisce/ices of Tolstoy, by His Son.
Diary, March 31, 1884.
Told by Alexandra Tolstoy's nanny, and retold in Alexandra's book: Tolstoy, A Life of My Father.Diary, April 6, 1884.
Ibid., July 12, 1884.
Ibid., July 14, 1884.
Utter, October 23, 1884.
Letter, October 26, 1884.
Letter, October 27, 1884.
Letter, October 28, 1884.
Letter, February 24, 1885.
Letter, February 21, 1885.
Letter, February 22, 1885. 35. Note of April 5, 1885.
Letter, December 9, 1884.
Letter, mid-December 1885.
Sergey must not have been in the house. Masha—diminutive of Marya.
Recollections of the Death of My Father, Europe, 19-8.
Letter, December 22, 1885.
Letter, January 18, 1886.
Letter, January 23, 1S86.
Letter, September 2, 1886.
Letter, also written on September 2, 1886.
Stakhovich: Fragments of Reminiscences.
Letter, April 28, 1886.
The Power of Darkness had just come out in the inexpensive Intermediary series.
Part VI, Chapter 2