Eine Ehe in Briefen

Lev Tolstoy and his wife Sofja kept up an extensive correspondence during their fifty-year marriage. These letters provide insights into the everyday and family life of the Tolstoys and into the creation of Tolstoy's great works such as War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Resurrection, and The Sonata of the Cross. Above all, they are a document of a great and at the same time difficult love. "The Tolstoy letters can be read like a gripping novel. Two highly intelligent people argue about love, politics and life. Not a word here has lost its relevance or urgency. One suffers along and learns." ORF.