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Date: 20070902
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THE PHOTOGRAPHS

OF COUNTESS

SOPHIA TOLSTOY

[EXHIBIT] The novels of Leo Tolstoy paint a vivid picture of the world of czarist aristocracy. But if it's not vivid enough for you, try "Song Without Words: The Photographs of Countess Sophia Tolstoy," the show that opens Tuesday at the Katzen Arts Center. In 70 images -- from more than 1,000 that she took -- we get to see that world through the eyes of the author's long-suffering wife. (Accent on "long" and "suffering" -- you wouldn't wish Leo on any woman for the 48 years Sophia had to put up with him.) Tolstoy, the man, is at that world's ...

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