Historical records matching Sophia Andreevna Tolstoy
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About Sophia Andreevna Tolstoy
On 23 September 1862, Tolstoy married Sophia Andreevna Bers, the daughter of a court physician, who was 16 years his junior. (Sonya, the Russian diminutive of Sofya, is the name that was used by her family and friends) They had thirteen children, five of whom died during childhood. The marriage was marked from the outset by sexual passion and emotional insensitivity when Tolstoy, on the eve of their marriage, gave her his diaries detailing his extensive sexual past and the fact that one of the serfs on his estate had borne him a son. Even so, their early married life was ostensibly happy and allowed Tolstoy much freedom to compose the literary masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina with Sonya acting as his secretary, proof-reader and financial manager. However, their later life together has been described by A. N. Wilson as one of the unhappiest in literary history. His relationship with his wife deteriorated as his beliefs became increasingly radical and he sought to reject his inherited and earned wealth, including the renunciation of the copyrights on his earlier works.
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Sophia Andreevna Tolstoy's Timeline
| 1844 |
August 22, 1844
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Pokrovskoye-Glebovo, Moskva, gorod Moskva, Moscow, Russia (Russian Federation)
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| 1863 |
June 28, 1863
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Yasnaya Polyana, Shchekinskiy rayon, Tulskaya oblast', Russia (Russian Federation)
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| 1864 |
October 4, 1864
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Yasnaya Polyana, Russia
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| 1866 |
May 22, 1866
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Yasnaya Polyana, Russia
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| 1869 |
May 20, 1869
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[MyHeritage: 1869-06-01], Yasnaya Polyana, Shchekinskiy rayon, Tulskaya oblast', Russia (Russian Federation)
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| 1871 |
February 18, 1871
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Yasnaya Polyana, Shchekinskiy rayon, Tulskaya oblast', Russia (Russian Federation)
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| 1872 |
June 13, 1872
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Yasnaya Polyana, Shchekinskiy rayon, Tulskaya oblast', Russia (Russian Federation)
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| 1874 |
April 22, 1874
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Yasnaya Polyana, Shchekinskiy rayon, Tulskaya oblast', Russia (Russian Federation)
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| 1875 |
November 1, 1875
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Yasnaya Polyana, Shchekinskiy rayon, Tulskaya oblast', Russia (Russian Federation)
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