Tolstoy

In addition to War and Peace, Anna Karenina and Resurrection, all of which are widely available in English translation, two anthologies of Tolstoy’s shorter works can be recommended: Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy, tr. Louise and Aylmer Maude (1969), and Tolstoy’s Short Fiction, ed. and tr. Michael R. Katz, 2nd edn (2008), which is accompanied by a selection of critical articles. Also valuable are the Penguin editions of Childhood, Boyhood and Youth, translated by Rosemary Edmonds (1973), The Sebastopol Sketches, translated and introduced by David McDuff (1986), and How Much Land Does a Man Need?, translated by Ronald Wilks with an introduction by A. N. Wilson (1993)

English translations of Tolstoy’s religious works include A Confession and Other Religious Writings, ed. and tr. Jane Kentish (1987), and Last Steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy, ed. and tr. Jay Parini (2009). A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, ed. and tr. Peter Sekirin (1997), is a translation of Tolstoy’s last major religious compilation Put’ zhizni (The Path of Life).

Two essential biographical sources are Tolstoy’s Diaries, ed. and tr. R. F. Christian (1985), and The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy, tr. Cathy Porter (2009). Also recommended is Leah Bendavid-Val, Song Without Words: The Photographs and Diaries of Sophia Tolstoy (2007). Amongst biographies, the most dependable are Aylmer Maude, The Life of Tolstoy (1930), and A. N. Wilson, Tolstoy (1988).

For critical literature on Tolstoy, The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy, ed. Donna Tussing Orwin (2002), and Richard F. Gustafson’s Leo Tolstoy: Resident and Stranger – A Study in Fiction and Theology (1986) are a good place to start. · 4 9 8 ·

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Primary Sources

EDITIONS OF TOLSTOY’S WORKS

L. N. Tolstoi, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii, ed. V. G Chertkov, 90 vols, Moscow, 1928–1958

L. N. Tolstoi, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii v sta tomakh, ed. L. D. Gromova- Opul’skaya et al.; Khudozhestvennye proizvedeniya v vosemnadtsati tomakh, Moscow, 2000

CORRESPONDENCE

B. L. Modzalevsky, ed., Perepiska L. N. Tolstogo s Gr. A. A. Tolstoi, 1857–1903, St Petersburg, 1911

A. A. Donskov, ed., L. N. Tolstoi i T. M. Bondarev: perepiska, Munich, 1996

A. A. Donskov, ed., L. N. Tolstoi i S. A. Tolstaya: Perepiska s N. N. Strakhovym, Ottawa, 2000

N. A. Kalinina et al., eds, Perepiska L. N. Tolstogo s sestroi i brat’yami, Moscow, 1990

A. T. Tolstaya, S. A. Tolstaya and P. S. Popov eds., Pis’ma k L. N. Tolstomu, 1862–1910, Moscow, 1936

FAMILY MEMOIRS AND DIARIES

S. A. Behrs, Recollections of Count Leo Tolstoy, tr. Charles Edward Turner, London, 1893

A. Bers, ‘Otryvki vospominanii o L. N. Tolstom’, in Tolstoi i o Tolstom: Novye materialy, ed. V. G. Chertkov and N. N. Gusev, vol. 2, Moscow, 1926, 124–132

T. A. Kuzminskaya, Moya zhizn’ doma i v Yasnoi Poliane, ed. T. N. Volkova, Tula, 1973

T. L. Sukhotina-Tolstaya, Vospominaniya, Moscow, 1976

T. L. Sukhotina-Tolstaya, Dnevnik, ed. T. Volkova, Moscow, 1984A. L. Tolstaya, Otets, 2 vols, New York, 1953

A. L. Tolstaya, Probleski v t’me, Washington DC, 1965

S. A. Tolstaya, ‘Iz zapisok Grafini Sofii Andreevny Tolstoi pod zaglaviem “Moya Zhizn”’, in Tolstovskii ezhegodnik, St Petersburg, 1913

S. A. Tolstaya, The Autobiography of Countess Sophie Tolstoi, preface and notes by Vasilii Spiridonov, tr. S.S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf, Richmond, 1922

S. A. Tolstaya, Dnevniki v dvukh tomakh, ed. V. E. Vatsuro et al., 2 vols, Moscow, 1978

S. A. Tolstaya, ‘Moya zhizn’’, Novyi mir, 8 (1978), 34–134

S. A. Tolstaya, ‘Moya zhizn’’, Prometei: istoriko-biograficheskii al’manakh serii “Zhizn’ zamechatel’nykh lyudei”, 12 (1980), 148–198