Leo Tolstoy by Andrei Zorin biographical Making his way from the

Making his way from the Polish border in the west

planned and executed by Russia's enemies in the West

rouses himself from a drunken stupor and prepares for another day of debauchery

Only in the seclusion of her bedroom is her imagination freed: each day of deception is followed by a night of dreams described in soaring verse

Follow Caroline Eden across Central Asia – from the Caspian shores to Uzbekistan’s Fergana Valley – in “Red Sands”

Leo Tolstoy by Andrei Zorin biographical Making his way from theWhen he arrived in Moscow in 1851, a young Leo Tolstoy set himself three immediate aims: to gamble, to marry and to obtain a post. At that time he managed only the first. The writer's momentous life would be full of forced breaks and abrupt departures, from the death of his beloved parents to an abandonment of the social class into which he had been born. Andrei Zorin skilfully pieces together Tolstoy's life, offering an account of the novelist's