#Leo Tolstoy

[flintknife]

'A Confession', 1880.

[entheognosis]

If you feel pain. You are alive. But, if you feel the pain of others, you’re human.

Leo Tolstoy

[shisasan]

26 September, 1880 Leo Tolstoy in his letter to Nikolai Strakhov

[metamorphesque]

"War and Peace", Leo Tolstoy (translated by Constance Garnett)

[mrmummy]

Just read the "Kreutzer Sonata" and let's just say I was not prepared... it is therefore very important that this exists!

Here is also an article (German only) about Sofia's influence on Leo's work and her emancipation from his views.

Can we please talk about Sof'ja Tolstaya?

She became Leo Tolstoy's wife at 18, when he was 34. She was an amazing and strong woman, who had to deal with an incredibly misogynistic and lunatic husband, 13 children, and was forced to give up on all her literary aspirations – yet she wrote.

Her main works of fiction, two novellas she wrote as a response to her husband's The Kreutzer Sonata, didn't get published during her life, for they were extremely critical of Lev's work.

Whose fault? and Song Without Words were rediscovered and made accessible to a wider public only in the 21st century, along with her diaries, spanning through decades, and an autobiography.

Sofja (head of the table, to the right), and Lev (first man on her right) with their family; Cassell and Co, NY, 1911

Some useful sources:

Wikipedia article dedicated to her

short and eloquent article on The Guardian

free online copy of Autobiography of Sophie Andreevna Tolstoi on archive.org

SoundCloud podcast episode "Sofia Tolstoy" by John Sandoe Books (I haven't personally listened to it)

[fatherdmitri]

my psychiatrist just diagnosed me with 19th century russian literature character

[merildae]

Books I’ve read since starting T, 2024

Oil on canvas

24 x 18 in.

[petiteappetite]

rediscovery of self

[unleashed-imagination]

Rest, nature, books, music - such is my idea of happiness.

— Leo Tolstoy

[macrolit]

[malusokay]

girl breakfast ˖ . ݁𝜗𝜚. ݁₊

follow my insta @ malusokay btw..

[pterodach]

Since the beginning of the year, more than 700 libraries have been destroyed or damaged in Ukraine.

Russia struck Ukraine’s major printing press, Faktor-Druk in Kharkiv, killing at least 5 employees among the 7 dead & 20 injured. Kharkiv is the heart of Ukraine’s publishing industry. This attack on culture underscores the genocidal nature of Russia’s war. Factor-print was bombed exactly one week before the Book Arsenal (book festival), just when dozens of publishing novelties were being rushed to print. The bombing was aimed at preventing these books from being published, at preventing Ukrainians from having book fairs - for a quarter of a century, the Russians had managed to silence them using other methods, and now that they have started to find their feet, they are using bombs and missiles. And all for the sake of the "great Russian culture". Forcing people to read this literature because of the absence of destroyed Ukrainian literature. My deepest condolences to the families of the victims and to the Vivat publishing house (the bookshop belongs to them).

[ruhnefesim]

Birini seversen eğer, olmasını istediğin gibi değil olduğu gibi, her şeyiyle seversin.

Lev Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

[resqectable]

It's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

Leo Tolstoy

[a-books-allure]

18.08.24 | Forest strolling

“We imagine that when we are all thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us.”

✒️ Leo Tolstoy - War&Peace

(all pics are mine)

[metamorphesque]

"War and Peace", Leo Tolstoy (translated by Constance Garnett)