Tolstoy

1. N. N. Gusev, Letopis’ zhizni i tvorchestva L. N. Tolstogo, 1828–1890, Moscow, 1958 [Letopis’ 1], 69.

2. N. N. Gusev, Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoi. Materialy k biografii s 1828 po 1855 god [Gusev 1], Moscow, 1954, 430.

3. N. A. Kalinina et al., Perepiska L. N. Tolstogo s sestroi i brat’yami, Moscow, 1990, 186–187.

4. Kalinina et al., Perepiska, 187.

5. N. N. Gusev, Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoi. Materialy k biografii s 1855 po 1869 god [Gusev 2], Moscow, 1957, 4.

6. R. Bartlett and Anna Benn, Literary Russia: A Guide, London, 2007, 207.

7. Gusev 2, 10.

8. Gusev 2, 5.

9. Gusev 2, 15.

10. JE 34, 385.

11. Kalinina et al., Perepiska, 171.

12. JE 47, 65.

13. Gusev 2, 17.

14. Gusev 2, 33.

15. Gusev 2, 30.

16. Gusev 2, 25.

17. Gusev 2, 36.

18. William Coxe, Travels into Poland, Russian, Sweden and Denmark, London, 1784, cited in St Petersburg: A Traveller’s Companion, ed. Laurence Kelly, London, 1981, 70–71.

19. Aleksandr Radishchev, A Journey from St Petersburg to Moscow, tr. Leo Wiener, ed. Roderick Page Thaler, Cambridge, Mass., 1958, 188.

20. Gusev 2, 18.

21. Letopis’ 1, 113.

22. Letopis’ 1, 117.

23. Gusev 2, 54.

24. Kalinina et al., Perepiska, 186, 199.

25. S. M. Tolstoi, Tolstoi i Tolstye. Ocherki iz istorii roda, Moscow, 1990, 188.

26. Gusev 2, 80–83.

27. JE 47, 90–91.

28. Letopis’ 1, 124, 126, 130.

29. Gusev 2, 93.

30. JE 60, 149.

31. JE 60, 151.

32. Andrzej Walicki, A History of Russian Thought from the Enlightenment to Marxism, tr. Hilda Andrews-Rusiecka, Oxford, 1980, 200.

33. N. G. Chernyshevsky, ‘Tolstoy’s Military Tales’, tr. Michael R. Katz, in Tolstoy’s Short Fiction, ed. and tr. Michael Katz, New York, 1991, 368.

34. JE 47, 118.

35. Kalinina et al., Perepiska, 206.

36. Kalinina et al., Perepiska, 206.

37. Gusev 2, 196.

38. JE 60, 189.

39. In the autumn of 2004 the monastery had to shut the kennels as it could no longer afford to run them.

40. JE 47, 136.

41. Letopis’ 1, 158.

42. JE 47, 140.

43. Gusev 2, 213.

44. Gusev 2, 226.

45. Letopis’ 1, 163.

46. JE 47, 149.

47. JE 60, 222.

48. Gusev 2, 237.

49. Gusev 2, 250.

50. Letopis’ 1, 180.

51. Gusev 2, 286.

52. Gusev 2, 276.

53. Richard Stites, Serfdom, Society and the Arts in Imperial Russia, New Haven, 2005, 317.

54. Gusev 2, 265.

55. Gusev 2, 269.

56. JE 57, 112.

57. Gusev 2, 300.

58. Valeriya Abrosimova, ‘Syn velikogo Tolstogo. Voina i Amerika’, Toronto Slavic Quarterly, 24 (2008): www.utoronto.ca/tsq/24/ambrosimova24.shtml

59. Vladimir Zhdanov, Lyubov’ v zhizni Tolstogo (first published 1928), Moscow, 2005, 43.

60. Gusev 2, 320.

61. L. Sabaneev, Russkaya okhota (first published 1892), Moscow, 2003, 482.

62. Gusev 2, 317.

63. See Hugh McLean, ‘Buried as a Writer and as a Man’, In Quest of Tolstoy, Brighton, Mass., 2008, 3–20.

64. Gusev 2, 331.

65. Jeffrey Brooks, When Russia Learned to Read: Literacy and Popular Literature 1861–1917, Princeton, 1985, 4.

66. Gusev 2, 351.

67. Gusev 2, 367.

68. Gusev 2, 374.

69. Gusev 2, 392.

70. I am grateful to Jennie de Protani, Archivist at the Athenaeum, for supplying me with this information.

71. Letopis’ 1, 225.

72. Victor Lucas, Tolstoy in London, London, 1979.

73. Gusev 2, 403.

74. Gusev 2, 409.

75. Letopis’ 1, 231.

76. Letopis’ 1, 233.

77. Eugene Schuyler, Selected Essays, New York, 1901, 274–275.

78. Gusev 2, 431.

79. Gusev 2, 445.

80. Letopis’ 1, 237.

81. Gusev 2, 445–447.

82. Gusev 2, 459, 484.

83. L. Tolstoi, ‘Yasno-Polyanskaya shkola za Noyabr’ i Dekabr’ mesyatsy’, Yasnaya Polyana, 1 (1862), cited in Aylmer Maude, The Life of Tolstoy (first published in 1930), Ware, 2008, 239–241.

84. Gusev 2, 510.

85. Gusev 2, 481.

86. Eugene Schuyler, ‘Preface’ to Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons, tr. Eugene Schuyler, New York, 1867, vii.

87. Gusev 2, 478.

88. JE 60, 438.

89. JE 60, 436.

7 Husband, Beekeeper and Epic Poet

1. JE 48, 48.

2. S. A. Tolstaya, ‘Moya zhizn’’, Novy mir, 8 (1978), 360.

3. Eugene Schuyler, Selected Essays, New York, 1901, 216.

4. JE 48, 40.

5. S. L. Tolstoy, Ocherki bylogo, 3rd rev. edn, Tula, 1965, 15.