This book by Leo Tolstoy researcher V. A. Zhdanov (1898–1974) touches on the most complex and intimate aspects of the life of the Russian genius. First published in 1928 using the writer’s unpublished diary entries, it caused a lot of controversy and rejection. Hobbies and love, relationships with his wife, sensory experiences and the struggle with them... The classic of world literature appears here in all the polarity of his incomprehensible personality, with all the metamorphoses of the soul of the years he has lived. At the end of his life, Tolstoy, who always longed for ideal love, would call this feeling base, and his family happiness would turn into family discord.