| [Portrait of Tolstoy when commencing Anna Karénina, 1873. By Kramskóy] | Frontispiece |
| Facing page |
| [Tolstoy in 1848, after leaving the University] | 48 |
| [Map of Sevastopol] | 113 |
| [Prominent Russian Writers, 1856: Tourgénef, Sologoúb,Tolstoy, Nekrásof, Grigoróvitch, and Panáef] | 142 |
| [Tolstoy in 1856, the year he left the Army] | 152 |
| [Tolstoy in 1860, the year his brother Nicholas died] | 200 |
| [Tolstoy in 1862, the year of his Marriage] | 290 |
| [Tolstoy's Library, showing the wooden crosspiece from which he wished to hang himself] | 402 |