Unhappy in Its Own Way
Tolstoy and Tolstaya: Literature’s most infamous marriage, through a lifetime of letters June 2017
My departure will upset you. I am sorry about that, but understand and believe that I could not act any other way. My situation at home is becoming, has become unbearable. Apart from everything else, (since) I can no longer live in these conditions of luxury in which I have been living, I am doing what elderly people of my age generally do: give up on the worldly life and go off to spend the final days of their lives in solitude and …