Masja

Among Leo Tolstoy's thirteen children it was Masja who was dearest to him, and therefore perhaps the most at the mercy of his authority, while her mother, too, tried to control her. The novel traces her attempt to become her own person from the 1870s into the 1900s, centred on the tense, loving bond between the great writer and his girl. Real letters and diary entries bring in daily life at Yasnaya Polyana and the mounting unrest of Russia around 1900, and the author lets her own path to the material show through. The book completes a trilogy about the Tolstoy family.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

584 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Russia, 1871–1906

First published

2015 by Albert Bonniers Förlag

Author's age

73 when first published

ISBN

9789100142858 (original)