Sunday, July 18, 2010

Think you have marital problems

If you think you have marital problems you haven't read about Leo and Sophia Tolstoy:

 Sophia and Leo Tolstoy found themselves in perpetual conflict. In despair, Tolstoy left their country home, Yasnaya Polyana, on Oct. 28, 1910, taking to the road in the middle of the night, putting 48 years of marriage behind him. He died soon thereafter in a remote railway station, with his wife outside begging to be let in. She was turned away by Vladimir Chertkov, Tolstoy’s disciple and close friend, who suggested that any glimpse of her would hasten her husband’s end. Chertkov relented only when Tolstoy was in a coma, at the point of death.

Now that is marital problems.  Here is the rest of the review from the New York Times of a book titled "The Tolstoys' War" 

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