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'No sooner am I happy than he crushes me.'
Tolstoy's wife wrote these words in her diary a month after her marriage in 1862, a marriage which lasted 47 years and produced 13 children. Michael Oliver reflects on two versions of the writer's life and marriage in two new editions of the diaries of Sofia and Leo Tolstoy. Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN

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Michael Oliver
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Leo Tolstoy.
Producer:
Richard Bannerman
Source: Radio Times

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