Fleeing from his home and wife of 48 years with just 50 rubles in his pocket, 82-year Tolstoy rushed from one monastery to another before catching a cold on a train and dying at a small train station ...
Lipetsk Region also has a village by the name of Leo Tolstoy. It used to be a small railway station named Astapovo, infamous for the fact that it was here that 82-year-old Leo Tolstoy died.
GENIUS IN LOVE AND DEATH—Paul Wiegler; translated by Carl Raushenbush —Boni ($2.50). Author Wiegler presents a portfolio of 21 thumbnail biographies: impressionistic studies of men and women ...