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...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 to the theater . . . Papa stood motionless for some time, all of us sitting there, hanging our heads; then he turned about and went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Family of a Genius | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

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