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In 1896, a happy chance brought another student, A.B. Goldenweiser, to the house of Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy. Tolstoy treated the gifted pianist with great confidence and often opened his soul, shared his thoughts, feelings, experiences, sometimes of an intimate nature. He knew that Goldenweiser loved him with sincere, ardent love, that he could be relied upon as a devoted friend. The book, unique in terms of the duration of its creation, amazes - like Tolstoy himself - with its diversity and even variegation: Tolstoy's significant judgments on the most acute social, literary and philosophical issues coexist with funny trifles of everyday life, vivid characteristics of the most diverse visitors to Yasnaya Polyana and wild skirmishes between his wife Sofya Andreevna and her daughter Alexandra Lvovna. Text printed in full according to the first edition in two volumes L.N. Tolstoy Committee to help the hungry: Moscow, "Cooperative publishing house" and publishing house "Voice of Tolstoy", 1922, with inclusion directly in the text (in brackets) the author's explanations from his comments on this edition; part of the denominations of the 1922 edition restored based on the one-volume edition of "Hoodlit" 1959 (except for entries for 1910, as they were not then reissued)