1985 Random House HB, 1st American edition. MYLAR COVER. Sophia Tolstoy. wife of Leo (War and Peace, Anna Karenina) and mother of 13 of his children kept this diary from the year she married at 18 (he was 34) till the month before she died at 75. With the reputation as an unworthy partner to her husband, her comments gives us a different perspective since she fully expected Tolstoy to read them and vice-versa. A fascinating view of dealing w/ the artistic temperament and the Russian literary establishment in the 19th and early 20th centuries.