after that, the countess left home, left home and discovered that she was pregnant, she wrote to bastromhat take me to her. “if you accept, we will live happily together, if not, i will understand.” nobility competed with nobility, he accepted it, they began to live, get along, make good, on his farm in the volga region, where alexey nikolaevich was actually born. and the most interesting thing in the story of his childhood, his growing up, his youth is that until he was 13-14 years old he knew nothing about it, that is, he simply grew up on this farm. with peasant boys, with peasant girls, and he later said and quite rightly said that if none of this had happened, he would not have turned out to be the writer that he became, and this is absolutely true, but the problem was that the child did not have any documents, that is, he had a metric certificate, which was nevertheless issued after his birth, well, when he was baptized, naturally, but further so that the noble child could go to school, to a gymnasium. he needed to have a document proving membership in the nobility, which was issue

such an understanding in the family, then she has a dear friend, whose name is alexey apolonovich bastrom, he had a small farm in the volga region , but periodically he came to samara, and somewhere at some literary meeting, literary seminary, which were there then, he met this young... woman writing, they first had an idea spiritual romance, they both loved literature and could talk for hours about poetry and prose, then this romance 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 went to alexei apalonovich, 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 it was he who was such a stormy person, only she's suffering delivered, began to beg her to return, the children were crying, he was sad without her, and he promised her two things, the first that he promised her that he would publish her novel the rest