Countess Sophia Tolstoy
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Tolstoy's Difficult Life
Tolstoy's wife, the countess sophia andreyevna tolstya, did not make him a genius, but she did enable him to live as one. He spent so much time at the islavin home growing up that they served as a muse for his fiction. Sophia knew the man who would become her husband almost her whole life. But he could not have married his old friend liopof herself,. because by the time he was ready to start thinking about it, she had become, in his words, awful, balding and frail. The next generation of islaven women, now with the surnamed bers, was on deck.
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