Ilya Tolstoy, Reminiscences of Tolstoy — Masha's Death
“ Lyovotchka sat there thoughtful and melancholy."'Never mind, Papa; it'll be all right,' said Sasha, trying to encourage him."'Ah, you women, you women!' answered her father, bitterly. 'How can it ever be all right?'"I so much hoped that he would settle down here; it would just have suited him. And it was his own idea, too; he had even taken a cottage in the village," Aunt Masha sadly recalled. ”
Ilya Tolstoy, Reminiscences of Tolstoy — Masha's Death
“ She would go up to him, stroke his hand, caress him, and say something affectionate, and you could see that he liked it, was happy, and even responded in kind. It was as if he became a different man with her. ”
Ilya Tolstoy, Reminiscences of Tolstoy — Masha's Death
“ Masha had married a kinsman of ours, Prince Obolenski; she lived on her own estate at Pirogovo, twenty-one miles from us, and spent half the year with her husband at Yasnaya. She was very delicate and had constant illnesses. ”
