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TOLSTOY, Leo (1828-1910). 'Semejnoe schast’e' [Family Happiness.] In Russkij Vestnik. Tom 20. [The Russian Messenger. Vol. 20.] Moscow: Katkov & Co., 1859.
The first appearance in print of the story ‘Semejnoe schast’e’. By 1859, Russkij Vestnik had become one of the major literary periodicals of the time. In the early years of its third period of activity (1856-1887), it hosted unpublished works by I. Turgenev, M. Saltykov-Shchedrin, F. Dostoevsky and L. Tolstoy. Narrated by the female protagonist married to an older man, ‘Semejnoe schast’e’ addressed a theme dear to Tolstoy—the perception of ‘happiness’ in family life—and was inspired by his recent courting of the much younger Valeria Arseneva (Bartlett). Not in Smirnov-Sokol’skii, Moia biblioteka. R. Bartlett, Tolstoy: A Russian Life, p.139.
Octavo (231 x 147mm). (Probably lacking the half-title, a little age-browning, few dampstains on title, elsewhere minimal spotting.) 19th-century Russian half calf over paper boards, spine gilt lettered (lower hinge starting, a bit scuffed, spine sunned). Provenance: initials N.G. gilt at foot of spine.
The first appearance in print of the story ‘Semejnoe schast’e’. By 1859, Russkij Vestnik had become one of the major literary periodicals of the time. In the early years of its third period of activity (1856-1887), it hosted unpublished works by I. Turgenev, M. Saltykov-Shchedrin, F. Dostoevsky and L. Tolstoy. Narrated by the female protagonist married to an older man, ‘Semejnoe schast’e’ addressed a theme dear to Tolstoy—the perception of ‘happiness’ in family life—and was inspired by his recent courting of the much younger Valeria Arseneva (Bartlett). Not in Smirnov-Sokol’skii, Moia biblioteka. R. Bartlett, Tolstoy: A Russian Life, p.139.
Octavo (231 x 147mm). (Probably lacking the half-title, a little age-browning, few dampstains on title, elsewhere minimal spotting.) 19th-century Russian half calf over paper boards, spine gilt lettered (lower hinge starting, a bit scuffed, spine sunned). Provenance: initials N.G. gilt at foot of spine.
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