Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Tolstoy’s On Life and Its Times (Inessa Medzhibovskaya)
A Note on the Text
On Life (Leo Tolstoy Translated by Michael Denner and Inessa Medzhibovskaya)
Editor’s Notes
Historical Supplement (Selected, Translated, and Annotated by Inessa Medzhibovskaya)
Tolstoy’s Diary (May 1886–February 1887)
Tolstoy’s Letter to A. K. Diterikhs (September–October 1886)
“The Concept of Life”: Tolstoy’s Talk at the Moscow Psychological Society (March 14, 1887)
Letters concerning On Life, Aleksandra Andreevna Tolstaya and Lev Tolstoy
Letter to Nikolai Grot, against Tolstoy and On Life, Archbishop Nikanor of Kherson and Odessa
“A Little Chronicle”: A Reader’s Response to Critics of On Life (1889)
Vladimir Soloviev’s Unsent Letter to Tolstoy (circa 1889–91; last known edited copy 1894)
Nikolai Grot’s Comparison of On Life with Nietzsche’s Writings (1893)
Letter to the Editor from P. K. Novitskaya (1895)