The Tragedy of Tolstoy.

TOLSTOY, Countess Alexandra.

Item Number: 128053

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1933.

First edition of this work on Tolstoy by his youngest daughter. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of Tolstoy. Translated by Elena Varneck. In near fine condition. Ownership name.

Countess Alexandra (Sasha) Lvovna Tolstaya, often anglicized to Tolstoy, was the youngest daughter and secretary of the noted Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, one of the greatest authors of all time. Born to an aristocratic Russian family in 1828, Tolstoy is best known for the novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1878), often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction. He received nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906 and for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902, and 1909. That he never won is a major controversy.