Transcriber's Note:
This e-book only contains the front matter of Tolstoy's Plays (Complete Edition). The individual plays have been posted as separate Project Gutenberg e-books; they are linked to from this book's [table of contents].
From Leo Tolstoy concerning the translation of his works by Louise and Aylmer Maude:—
“Better translators, both for knowledge of the two languages and for penetration into the very meaning of the matter translated, could not be invented.”
LEO TOLSTOY