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Family Happiness

Семейное счастие

Lev Tolstói en Yásnaia Poliana (1908)
byLeo Tolstoy

Short novel narrated by Masha, a young woman who marries Sergei Mikhailovich, a family friend and guardian much older than herself. After the first idyll, the boredom of the country and the temptations of society life in St Petersburg extinguish passionate love, which turns into a calm affection centred on the children. Published in The Russian Messenger in 1859.

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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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