Diary of Makovitsky, August 17, 1905.
I-etter from Tolstoy to Yusliko.
Alexandra Tolstoy: Tolstoy, A Life of My Father.
Notebooks of Leo Tolstoy, September 1905.
Diary, July 30, 1905.
Ibid., July 3, 1906.
Letter, November 10, 1905.
Letter to his daughter Masha, July 14, 1906.
Alexandra Tolstoy: Tolstoy, A Life of My Father.
Ilya Tolstoy: Reminiscences of Tolstoy, by His Son.
Ibid.
Diary, September 2, 1906.
Letter, November 26, 1906.
Diary, December 28, 1906.
Part VIII, Chapter 1
Alexandra Tolstoy: Tolstoy, A Life of My Father.
Ibid.
Goldcnweiser: Talks with Tolstoy.
Maurice Kues: Tolstoy Living.
Alexandra Tolstoy: Tolstoy, A Life of My l'ather.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
letter to Popov, January 1908.
Alexandra Tolstoy: The Tragedy of Tolstoy.
Gusev: Two Years with L. N. Tolstoy.
Letter from A. A. Stolypin to Tolstoy, August 24. 1907.
Alexandra Tolstoy: Tolstoy, A Life of My Father.
Letter, February 28, 1908.
Diary, August 11, 1908.
Alexandra Tolstoy: Tolstoy, A Life of My Father.
Diary of Countess Tolstoy, September 7, 1908.
Diary, August 28, 1908.
Part VIII, Ciiapter 2
Alexandra Tolstoy: Tolstoy, A Life of My Father.
Unpublished diary of Biryukov, quoted by Meilakh in Flight and Death of Leo Tolstoy.
Quoted by Daniel Gilles, in Tolstoy.
Alexandra Tolstoy: Tolstoy, A Life of My Father.
N. Obolensky: Life of Tolstoy.
Diary, June 13, 1909. In the original text, Tolstoy wrote, by mistake, "They say Ermil is my son . . Krmil was Axinya's husband.
Alexandra Tolstoy: Tolstoy, A Life of My Father.
Alexandra Tolstoy: The Tragedy of Tolstoy.
Diary, July 26, 1909.
Diary of Makovitsky.
Cf. Alexandra Tolstoy: Tolstoy, A Life of My Father and The Tragedy of Tolstoy; Countess Tolstoy: Memoirs; Sergeycnko: Partings (Contemporary Views of Tolstoy), etc.
Alexandra Tolstoy: Tolstoy, A Life of My Father.
Diary, September 20, 1909.
Ibid., April 12, 1910.
Ibid., April 25, 1910.
Bulgakov: L. N. Tolstoy in the Last Year of His Life, entry of April 22, 1910.
Makovitsky: Diary, May 1, 1910.
Bulgakov: L. N. Tolstoy in the Last Year of His Life, entry of May 2, 1910.
Part VIII, Chapter 3
Diary, May 4, 1910.
Letter to Alexandra Tolstoy, May 9, 1910.
Diary of Countess Tolstoy, July 1, 1910.
Ibid., July 5, 1910.
Bulgakov: L. N. Tolstoy in the Last Year of His Life, entry of July 14, 1910.
Alexandra Tolstoy: Tolstoy, A Life of My Father, and diary of Countess Tolstoy, July 15, 1910.
Diary of Countess Tolstoy, July 17, 1910.
Ibid., July 18, 1910.
Alexandra Tolstoy: Tolstoy, A Life of My Father.
Ibid.
Diary of Countess Tolstoy, August 4, 1910.
Bulgakov: L. N. Tolstoy in the iMst Year of His Life, entry of July 30, 1910.
Diary of Countess Tolstoy, July 6, 1910.
Diary, July 10, 1910.
Tolstoy's remarks recorded by Beselovskv in Conversations with Tolstoy.
Quoted by Sophie Laffitte in her article "Tolstoi ct les 6crivains fran$ais" (in Europy, November-December i960). In 1894, Tolstoy had written a preface to the Russian edition of the Complete Works of Guy de Maupassant.
letter to Chertkov, September 6, 1910.
Letter of Countess Tolstoy, September 11, 1910.
Alexandra Tolstoy: Tolstoy, A Life of My Father.
Unpublished reminiscences of Dr. Makovitsky.
Letter, October 23, 1910.
Part VIII, Chapter 4
Diary, October 28, 1910. All the details of the scene were noted by Tolstoy himself, at Optina.
Reminiscences of Dr. Makovitskv.
Ibid.
Alexandra Tolstoy: The Tragedy of Tolstoy.
Letter, Octobcr 29, 1910.
Letter, October 29, 1910.
Alexandra Tolstoy: Tolstoy, A Life of My Father.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Reminiscences of Tatyana Sukhotin-Tolstoy.
Sergey Tolstoy: Sketches of the Past.
Ibid.
Sergey Tolstoy: Sketches of the Past.
Alexandra Tolstoy: Tolstoy, A Life of My Father.
Mcylakh: Flight and Death of Leo Tolstoy.
Boris Pasternak, future author of Doctor YJiivago, Nobel Prize 1958.
Post Mortem
Diary of Tatyana Tolstoy, entry of April 2, 1911.
Ibid., entry of May 19, 1911.
Masha's ex-husband.
Alexandra Tolstoy: The Tragedy of Tolstoy.
Tatyana Kuzminskaya, nee Behrs.
Diary of Tatyana Tolstoy, entry of October 7, 1919.
Sergey Tolstoy: Sketches of the Past.
Alexandra Tolstoy: The Tragedy of Tolstoy.
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