February 20, 2009
At Tolstoy's Last Station
I spent a week in Germany during the filming of The Last Station, which is based on my 1990 novel of the same title. It's about the final year in the life of Leo Tolstoy — a time of turmoil, when the Russian author was torn between Sofya, his wife of 48 years, and his chief disciple, Vladimir Chertkov,
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