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Word: andreyevna (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...while walking, he suddenly said: 'Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his most tormenting tragedy has been, is, and will be-the tragedy of the bedroom.' " "How do you like." he asked Gorky, "Sophie Andreyevna [his wife]?" Not many years later the aged Tolstoy ran away from home because of Sophie Andreyevna, fell ill en route and died in a stationmaster's dwelling a hundred miles away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tolstoy Plain | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

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