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Leo Tolstoy: resident and stranger.

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From: National Review
Date: 19870731
Author:Meyers, Jeffrey

Tolstoy, by Pietro Citati, translated by Raymond Rosenthal (Schocken, 265 pp., $18.95) Leo Tolstoy: Resident and Stranger, by Richard Gustafson (Princeton, 480 pp., $29.50)

TOLSTOI WAS A wealthy aristocrat, afeudal lord in a society that was still medieval. He led a privileged life, supported by the labor of innumerable peasants whom he ruled like a deity. His marriage was extremely happy and productive--of books and children-- for 17 years. But Tolstoi's religious crisis shattered the family's security and led to thirty years of bitter conflict with his sons and his wife, ...

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