Childhood and youth

Leo Tolstoy with his son Sergey
The first crisis in family relations began after Tolstoy wrote "Anna Karenina". He started depression, he was dissatisfied with everything. She was disturbed by the good lifestyle that her husband had lovingly furnished her. The depressive state was expressed by his giving up smoking, drinking and eating meat, and demands from his family. Tolstoy forced his relatives to dress in peasant style and made dresses for everyone with his own hands. Lev Nikolayevich wanted to distribute all the family's property to the peasants, and only God knows how Sofia tried to dissuade him from taking a hasty step.
Tolstoy agreed, but the couple quarreled and he left the house. Upon his return, he had his daughters rewrite drafts of his manuscript.
The couple briefly reconciled when their last child, their son Vanya, died. However, complete understanding never happened in the family. Sofia tried to find solace in music and even went to lessons with a Moscow teacher. Sympathy arose between them, but it did not go further. They remained friends, but Tolstoy called it "semi-treason" and did not forgive his spouse.
Leo Tolstoy with his family
The couple finally broke up in October 1910. The writer left a farewell message for his wife, confessing his love for her, but said that he had to leave her.
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At the end of October, Tolstoy and his accompanying personal physician D. Makovitsky left Yasnaya Polyana. At that time, the writer was 82 years old. On the train, he fell ill and had to get off at a station called Astapovo. Before his death, his last refuge was the station manager's house, where he lay for seven days.
Tomb of Leo Tolstoy in Jasnaya Polyana
His wife and children came to Tolstoy, but he refused to meet with them. Leo Tolstoy died on November 7, 1910. The cause of death was pneumonia. Yasnaya Polyana was the writer's place of rest. Sofya Andreyevna died nine years later.