ABSTRACT
NEARLY fifty years later, when Tolstoy's life was over, Leonid Andreyev wrote in his reminiscences of a visit to Yasnaya Polyana: "There was much in Sofia Andreyevna's treatment of her husband and in her words that touched me by its sincere affection, and gave me a false confidence that Tolstoy's last days would be passed in peace and joy. I cannot think that in this there was any deception on either side, any conscious or unconscious deception such as often occurs in the presence of outsiders. I explain my mistake to myself by there having been in their lives two truths, one of which I saw." 75
