Talks with Tolstoi

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Talks with Tolstoi, by Aleksandr Borisovich Golʹdenveĭzer, Translated by S. S. Koteliansky and VIrginia Woolf


TALKS WITH TOLSTOI
A. B. GOLDENVEIZER
TRANSLATED BY S. S. KOTELIANSKY AND VIRGINIA WOOLF
PUBLISHED BY LEONARD & VIRGINIA WOOLF AT THE HOGARTH PRESS, PARADISE ROAD, RICHMOND 1923

In the following pages we have made a selection from vol. i. of the diary of the well-known Russian musician, A. B. Goldenveizer, which was published at the end of 1922 in Moscow under the title Vblizi Tolstovo (literally Near Tolstoi ).

In publishing the diary devoted to my friendship of nearly fifteen years with Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi, I think it best to state first what my aim was in making notes, and the method I pursued in doing so.
I put down chiefly Tolstoi’s words, and to some extent the events of his private life, making no attempt to select what would be interesting from some special point of view, but adopting no method and attempting to supply no connection between one entry and another.