Leo Tolstoy and his wife

“I and the wife that I love as no one has ever loved anyone in the world. …But I know everything, and I hold her tightly, and I kiss her lovely eyes, her shyly blushing cheeks, and her smiling rosy... lips firmly and tenderly…” So spoke Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy about Sofia Andreevna. However, a completely happy person could not write the most genius phrase about unhappy families. The mysterious, even somewhat frightening personality of Tolstoy attracted and will continue to attract writers and readers. But looking at the last years of the classic’s life, at his strange flight, one should not forget that Tolstoy’s youth and maturity, his personal life are much more incomprehensible and contradictory. In his famous book, Andrey Shlyakhov details the great Leo Nikolayevich and his seemingly modest and quiet spouse.