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The Left and Right Hand of Count Leo Tolstoy
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The Left and Right Hand of Count Leo Tolstoy

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  • Nikolay Konstantinovich Mikhaylovsky, detail of a portrait by N.A. Yaroshenko, 1893; in the State Literature Museum, Moscow.
    Nikolay Konstantinovich Mikhaylovsky

    …most celebrated pieces were “The Left and Right Hand of Count Leo Tolstoy” (1873), which accurately predicted Tolstoy’s later social doctrines, and “A Cruel Talent” (1882), a criticism of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Possessed.

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    …most celebrated pieces were “The Left and Right Hand of Count Leo Tolstoy” (1873), which accurately predicted Tolstoy’s later social doctrines, and “A Cruel Talent” (1882), a criticism of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Possessed.

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