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'The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy,' reviewed by Michael Dirda
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By Michael Dirda
Thursday, September 30, 2010
THE DIARIES OF SOFIA TOLSTOY
By Michael Dirda
Thursday, September 30, 2010
THE DIARIES OF SOFIA TOLSTOY
So you think you have an unhappy marriage? On Oct. 8, 1862, just two weeks after she wed the 34-year-old novelist Leo Tolstoy, the former Sofia Behrs was writing in her diary: "The whole of my husband's past is so ghastly that I don't think I shall ever be able to accept it." Tolstoy had just let his sheltered, 18-year-old bride read his own youthful diaries, in which he described his gambling, drunkenness and debaucheries. A few days later, Sofia confesses that she doesn't make her husband happy and that his "coldness will soon be unbearable." By Nov. 23, she is talking of killing him. Later, she spoke frequently of killing herself and attempted to do so on at least two occasions.
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