Sophia Tolstaya (1844 - 2019)
Russian diarist and wife of writer Count Leo Tolstoy;
their marriage is considered one of the most famously unhappy
marriages of literary history, in which their children also took sides;
her diaries, in which she recorded her life with her husband,
were not published in English translation until the 1980s;
she also wrote her memoirs entitled My Life;
interested in photography, she took over 1000 photographs
documenting her life and the decline of the Russian Empire;
most of her works were published postmortem, long after being written,
because Tolstaya was critical of Leo Tolstoy in her writing and
the Russian authorities did not want the famous author's status tarnished.
Filling in the blanks of history one woman at a time. Thank you.
ReplyDelete🥵 Whoa! Just reading this mini-bio, I am both completely worn out and ashamed of myself...what a freaking dynamo Sophia was!! 🌪 Am I lazy at heart (yes!) or just relaxed and happy in marriage (you betcha!)?! 😊
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