Leo Tolstoy
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Contents
Abbreviations
1 An Ambitious Orphan
2 A Married Genius
3 A Lonely Leader
4 A Fugitive Celebrity
References
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
AK
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, trans. George Gibian (London and New York, 1995)
AT
Alexandra Tolstoy, Otets. Zhizn’ L’va Tolstogo, 2 vols (New York, 1953)
Ch-Ls
Anton Chekhov, A. P. Polnoe sobranie sochinenii i pisem: Pis’ma v dvenadtsati tomah, 12 vols (Moscow, 1974–83)