Sie ist verheiratet mit Lev Nikolayevich Graaf Tolstoj.
Sie haben geheiratet am 23. September 1862, sie war 18 Jahre alt.
Kind(er):
Sophia Behrs was one of three daughters of a German physician Andrey Evstafievich Behrs (1808–1868) and his Russian wife Liubov Alexandrovna (née Islavinа, 1826–1886). Her maternal great-grandfather, Count Pyotr Zavadovsky, was the first Minister of education in Russia's history. Sophia was first introduced to Leo Tolstoy in 1862 when she was 18 years old. At 34, Tolstoy was 16 years her senior. On 17 September 1862 the couple became formally engaged after Tolstoy gave Sophia a written proposal of marriage,[1] marrying a week later in Moscow. At the time of their marriage, Leo Tolstoy was well known as a novelist after the publication of The Cossacks. On the eve of their marriage, Tolstoy gave Sophia his diaries that detailed his sexual relations with female serfs.[citation needed] In Anna Karenina, 34-year-old Konstantin Levin, a semi-autobiographical character behaves similarly, asking his 19-year-old fiancée Kitty to read his diaries and learn of his past transgressions. The diary included the fact that Tolstoy had fathered a child by a woman who remained on the Yasnaya Polyana estate. In Anne Edwards' Sonya: The Life of Countess Tolstoy, she describes Sophia as having a deep fear that Tolstoy would re-enter a relationship with the other woman. Sophia Tolstaya and daughter Alexandra Tolstaya The Tolstoys had 13 children, eight of whom survived childhood. The family was prosperous, owing to Tolstoy's efficient management of his estates and to the sales of his works, making it possible to provide adequately for the family. Sophia acted as copyist of War and Peace, copying and editing the manuscript seven times from beginning to end at home at night by candlelight after the children and servants had gone to bed, using an inkwell pen and sometimes needing a magnifying glass to read her husband's notes. In 1887, Tolstaya regained interest in the relatively new art of photography, which she had learned to practice at age 16. She took over 1,000 photographs that documented her life, including with Tolstoy, and the decline of the pre-Soviet Russian Empire. She was a diarist and documented her life with Leo Tolstoy in a series of diaries which were published in English translation in the 1980s. Tolstaya wrote her memoirs as well, which she titled My Life. Family of Leo Tolstoy, 1887 After many years of an increasingly troubled marriage — the couple argued over Tolstoy's desire to give away all his private property — Leo left Sophia abruptly in 1910, aged 82, with their daughter Alexandra, and his doctor, Dushan Makovicki (Dušan Makovický). Tolstoy died 10 days later in a railway station, and Sophia was kept away from him (as depicted in the film The Last Station). Following the death of her husband, Sophia continued to live in Yasnaya Polyana and survived the Russian Revolution in relative peace. She died in 1919. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_Tolstoy
Sofga Andrejevna Behrs was de dochter van een arts die werkte in het Kremlin. De familie Behrs was van Pruisische komaf.
Op haar achttiende werd Sofja het hof gemaakt door de zestien jaar oudere graaf Leo Tolstoj. Twee jaar later traden ze in het huwelijk.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:L.Tolstoy_and_S.Tolstaya.jpg">https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/L.Tolstoy_and_S.Tolstaya.jpg/150px-L.Tolstoy_and_S.Tolstaya.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="198" data-file-height="600" data-file-width="455" />Sofja Tolstaja werd zestien keer zwanger; slechts acht van haar kinderen bereikten de volwassen leeftijd. Ze was een toegewijde huisvrouw. Met engelengeduld schreef zij Tolstojs manuscripten over. Maar ondanks haar monumentale dienstbaarheid was Sofja een sterke persoonlijkheid, gevoelig, artistiek. Zij schreef zelf een roman, een novelle, enkele verhalen, memoires en een dagboek. Haar dagboek verscheen in Nederland in de reeks Privé-domein. Hierin toont zij zich vol bewondering voor Tolstojs werk, maar zet zij ook al hun meningsverschillen uiteen. Zij had een wisselvallige, impulsieve aard, die wordt weerspiegeld in dit ego-document.
Tolstaja's enige novelle, Een zuivere liefde werd geschreven in 1893 maar pas in 1994 voor het eerst gepubliceerd, 75 jaar na haar dood. Het boek is te zien als een antwoord op Tolstojs novelle De Kreutzersonate, waarin ze door haar man als een verleidster wordt neergezet. Zelf beschrijft ze hoe de hooggestemde idealen van de vrouwelijke hoofdpersoon verwoest worden op het moment dat ze trouwt met een twee keer zo oude, jaloerse vorst.
Haar roman Lied zonder woorden, geschreven tussen 1897 en 1910, verscheen pas in 2010. Ook dit boek verhaalt over een ongelukkig getrouwde vrouw.
Sofja Tolstaja was een enthousiast amateurfotografe en legde een grote verzameling familiefoto's aan. Ze overleed in 1919, negen jaar na de dood van haar man.
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