Word: tatiana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tolstoy Home, by Tatiana Su-khotin-Tolstoy. Life with a father who also happened to be one of the eccentric geniuses of modern history (TIME, April...
...Tolstoy Home, by Tatiana Sukhotin-Tolstoy. Life with a father who also happened to be one of the eccentric geniuses of modern history (TIME, April...
...World." Tatiana was a shocking flirt herself, but stuck to her own class. At Moscow's fancy balls and masquerades, she waltzed away with many a nobleman's heart. Off ballroom floors, there were brief trysts in dim corridors. "He gave me his photo and I tucked it in my bodice, almost without looking at it, but as far as I could see I liked...
Temperature Chart. From the age of 13, daughter Tatiana (second of 13 children) took her father's precepts so seriously that she kept a moral temperature chart in the form of a diary. Tatiana made it a record of unsparing selfcriticism: "In my life-nothing; constant shame of my uselessness, and . . . whereas I profess Christianity in theory, in practice I so disgrace...
...Tatiana's diaries add up to a good dea more than gloomy probings, however; they offer a warm and charmingly candid portrait of her family-and of her father's frequent distress at the family's frivolity and worldly ways. "Yesterday evening [Papa Tolstoy] asked Lev what he had in his hand. Lev was obliged to say it was a bracelet, which the ... boys were offering to Zankovetzki, the actress. Papa turned sadly away, then asked me what I was reading-a fashion journal! And what was Vera Tolstoy doing this evening? She had gone...