on whom old prince bolkonski are more in pieces but it's his maternal grandfather was also very grand military and political figure tolstoy himself lived almost entirely in the country at his estate and yes my apology on the he never really. played a big part in the political life unlike his cousins caught in petersburg or in moscow but you're right to say there was this huge crisis in the middle of his life when you'd finished anna karenina. which was a fantastic success as well as war and peace and i made it very very rich which he hadn't been before he'd been land it and it had peasants and it had a states but he wasn't very rich he then became a multimillionaire as we would say. and he had a crisis what's the point of it all there's a moment in his autobiography where he said he couldn't even be in a room in the room with a piece of rope to feel that he would want to hang himself he then thought the way to live for is to try to be like a peasant and for a few years he pretended that. by the way set up schools not only on his interstates for the last eight years and miles around la

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