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The Light Shines in Darkness

И свет во тьме светит

Lev Tolstói en Yásnaia Poliana (1908)
byLeo Tolstoy

Unfinished and openly autobiographical drama, worked on between 1890 and 1900. Nikolai Saryntsev, a landowner converted to radical Christianity, wants to give away his land and clashes with his wife and family; a young disciple who refuses military service is shut in an asylum. Tolstoy left only an outline of the last act. Published in 1911.

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  • Толстой, Л. Н. Собрание сочинений в 22 томах. Moscú: Judózhestvennaia literatura, 1978–1985 (índices de los tomos 1–22 en la Biblioteca Virtual Rusa, RVB; el t. 10, de 1982, recoge los relatos de la Nueva Azbuka y de los cuatro Libros rusos de lectura).

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