Life with Father - Tolstoy

The author of the book is Leo Tolstoy's youngest daughter, Alexandra Tolstaya, who lived with her father for twenty-five years until his death, and was one of his closest people. In her memoirs, she follows the growth of these relationships, especially in the last years of the writer's life, when he was going through a spiritual and family crisis, in need of love and understanding. It is a book of vivid and interesting memoirs that reliably depicts the life of the family and the world around it, and narrates the circumstances of the last years of the life of the great writer, when Tolstoy decided to give up his rights as an author and put his works free of charge for the public, while his wife rejected this option, and fought for the copyright to be in her name, because she was the source of "the family's livelihood." The daughter stood by her father in this dramatic conflict, and because of his trust in her, he granted her the right to dispose of his works after his death.