The Last Days of Tolstoy.

TCHERTKOFF, Vladimir. [Leo Tolstoy].

$75.00

Item Number: 133949

London: William Heinemann, 1922.

First edition of Chertkov’s illuminating biographical work including numerous excepts from Tolstoy’s personal diaries and letters. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.

Born to an aristocratic Russian family in 1828, Leo Tolstoy is best known for the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction. He first achieved literary acclaim in his twenties with his semi-autobiographical trilogy, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth (1852–1856), and Sevastopol Sketches, based upon his experiences in the Crimean War.