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THE LIFE OF TOLSTOY
FIRST FIFTY YEARS

BY
AYLMER MAUDE

FIFTH EDITION

NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1911

First Edition	September 1908
Second Edition	October 1908
Third Edition	September 1910
Fourth Edition	January 1911
Fifth Edition	April 1911

PREFACE

The reason I have written this work is because so manyamong us are interested in Tolstoy and so few seem to understandhim. It would seem therefore that an English Lifeof Tolstoy is needed, and having lived in Russia for twenty-threeyears, known Tolstoy well for several years, visitedhim frequently in Moscow, and stayed with him repeatedlyat Yásnaya Polyána, I am perhaps as well qualified as anyone to write it, especially as I have long made a carefulstudy of his views. My wife and I have translated severalof his works, have known people closely connected with him,and some ten years ago we took part in an unsuccessful'Tolstoy' Colony; besides which I went to Canada at hiswish to make arrangements for the Doukhobór migration,of which I subsequently wrote the history.

Moreover, I am impartial. That is to say, I have takenpains to understand Tolstoy's views, and to see the goodthere is in them; but being a Westerner, I see also certainthings Tolstoy overlooks, and I know that these thingsknock big holes in some of his most cherished 'principles.'

The book has had the great advantage of being carefullyrevised by his wife, the Countess S. A. Tolstoy, whoboth verbally and in writing has rendered me most valuableassistance.

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