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[ Maria Mikhailovna, his wife.]
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[ Tolstoy's sister. She became a nun after her husband's death and the marriage of her three daughters.]
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[ Tolstoy was in the artillery, and commanded a battery in the Crimea.]
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[ Fet, at whose house the quarrel took place, tells all about it in his memoirs. Tolstoy dogmatized about lady-like charity, apropos of Turgenieff's daughter. Turgenieff, in a fit of nerves, threatened to box his ears. Tolstoy challenged him to a duel, and Turgenieff apologized.]
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[ Turgenieff was ten years older than Tolstoy.]