Лев Толстой и жена. Смешной старик со страшными мыслями

"Me and my wife, whom I love as no one has ever loved anyone in the world. ...But I know everything, and I hug her tightly, and firmly and tenderly kiss her lovely eyes, bashfully blushing cheeks and smiling rosy lips..." This is what Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy said about Sofya Andreevna. But an absolutely happy person could not write the most brilliant phrase about unhappy families. Tolstoy’s mysterious, even somewhat frightening personality has attracted and will continue to attract both writers and readers. However, focusing on the last years of the classic’s life, on his strange escape, we should not forget that Tolstoy’s youth and maturity, his personal life are much more incomprehensible and contradictory. A new book by the famous writer Andrei Shlyakhov about the great Lev Nikolaevich and his seemingly modest and quiet wife.