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Manual Labour and Intellectual Activity (Letter to Romain Rolland)

Lev Tolstói en Yásnaia Poliana (1908)
byLeo Tolstoy

Reply of October 1887 to the young Romain Rolland, then a student in Paris, who had written asking about the meaning of art and intellectual work; Tolstoy answers that it is legitimate only if born of love and does not exempt one from manual labour.

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Russian title not verified in the sources consulted; title and date as given in the English reference bibliography.

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