and then she had a dear friend, whose name was alexei apollonovich bastrom, he was from the russified-single-lord, in today's language a farmer, he had a small farm in the volga region, but periodically he came to samara, somewhere at some literary meeting, literary seminar, which were there then, he met this young writing woman, they first had a spiritual a novel, they both loved literature and could talk for hours about poetry and prose, then this novel turned into such a more serious relationship at some point alexandra leontyevna, she was such an impetuous, brave, desperate girl, she simply left her husband, left her children and left to alexey palonovich, it must be said that in this situation , count nikolai alexandrovich tolstoy, her husband, the father of her children, behaved unexpectedly nobly. he took all the blame for what happened on himself, that here he was such a stormy person, he only caused her suffering, he began to beg her to come back, the children were crying, he was sad without her, and he promised her two things: the first thing he promised her, that he will pu