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Jay Parini is Axinn Professor of English at Middlebury College, Vermont. His six novels include The Last Station.

Count Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828. He took part in the Crimean War, and married Sofya Andreyevna Behrs in 1862. Over the next fifteen years they had thirteen children and Tolstoy managed his vast estates in the Volga Steppes, continued his educational projects, cared for his peasants and wrote War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). A Confession (1879-82) marked a spiritual crisis in his life. In 1901 he was excommuincated by the Russian Holy Synod. He died in 1910, in the course of a dramamtic flight from home, at the small railway station of Astapovo.

Last Steps The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy

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    Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 10/29/2009 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780141191195, 978-0141191195
    ISBN10: 0141191198
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    Description

    Book Synopsis

    Jay Parini is Axinn Professor of English at Middlebury College, Vermont. His six novels include The Last Station.

    Count Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828. He took part in the Crimean War, and married Sofya Andreyevna Behrs in 1862. Over the next fifteen years they had thirteen children and Tolstoy managed his vast estates in the Volga Steppes, continued his educational projects, cared for his peasants and wrote War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). A Confession (1879-82) marked a spiritual crisis in his life. In 1901 he was excommuincated by the Russian Holy Synod. He died in 1910, in the course of a dramamtic flight from home, at the small railway station of Astapovo.

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