Few lives have been more examined, not least by himself, than Lev Tolstoy?s.
Born in 1828 into the Russian nobility, the future author of ?War and Peace? and ?Anna Karenina? had reasons to take himself seriously. His father?s family had been important since the time of Peter the Great, but his mother?s, reaching back to the ninth century, was as august as the Romanovs. Till the year of his death, 1910, he wrote about his family and himself constantly, whether in diaries, letters, confessions or, with scant disguise, in his fiction. That outpouring, plus memoirs by his wife, children and cultic followers, provided abundant material for Russian researchers.
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