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TOLSTOY As I KNEW HIM (439 pp.)-Tatyana A. Kuzminskaya-Macmillan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bright Young Man | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

Tatyana Bers Kuzminskaya, who was born in 1846 and died in 1925, was no more than a child when she and her elder sisters, Liza and Sonya, were caught in Tolstoy's love-web. Sister Liza fell madly in love with young Tolstoy-only to find that he was in love with sister Sonya, who became his wife. Tatyana herself got the next best break: her brother-in-law admired her so much that he made her the model for his heroine, Natasha Rostova, in War and Peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bright Young Man | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

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