Reminiscences of Leo Nicolayevitch Tolstoi
REMINISCENCES OF
LEO NICOLAYEVITCH TOLSTOI
By
MAXIM GORKY
Authorized Translation from the Russian
by
S. S. KOTELIANSKY
and
LEONARD WOOLF
SECOND EDITION
PUBLISHED BY LEONARD & VIRGINIA WOOLF AT
The HOGARTH PRESS, PARADISE ROAD, RICHMOND
1920
First published, July, 1920.
Second Edition, November, 1920.
TRANSLATORS' NOTE TO
SECOND EDITION
REMINISCENCES of Leo Nicolayevitch Tolstoi, by Maxim Gorky, was originally published in Russian in Petrograd in 1919. The first half of the book, consisting of notes, had been written between 1900 and 1901, when Tolstoi, Gorky, and Tchekhov were living in the Crimea. The second half consists of a letter written by Gorky in 1910.
A second edition of the book will shortly be published in Russia, and will contain a few additional notes not included in the first edition. We have included this additional matter in the present edition, enclosing it in square brackets. PREFACE
THIS little book is composed of fragmentary notes written by me during the period when I lived in Oleise and Leo Nicolayevitch at Gaspra in the Crimea. They cover the period of Tolstoi's serious illness and of his subsequent recovery. The notes were carelessly jotted down on scraps of paper, and I thought I had lost them, but recently I have found some of them. Then I have also included here an unfinished letter written by me under the influence of the "going away" of Leo Nicolayevitch from Yassnaya Polyana, and of his death. I publish the letter just as it was written at the time, and without correcting a single word. And I do not finish it, for somehow or other this is not possible.
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This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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