The sick tsar Alexander III attended by Pobedonostsev, head of the Russian Orthodox church, Tolstoy and the mascot of the French republic; representing the difference between Russia's internal problems and the enthusiasm of France following the Franco-Russian alliance. Reproduction of a lithograph by J. Braakensiek, 1891.

Il genio e l'alienista : la visita di Lombroso a Tolstoj / Paolo Mazzarello.

Aging & mental health : positive psychosocial approaches / Robert N. Butler, Myrna I. Lewis.

The ethics of wine-drinking and tobacco-smoking / [Leo Tolstoi].

The death of Ivan Ilyich and other stories / Leo Tolstoy ; translated by Aylmer Maude and J.D. Duff ; with a new afterword by Hugh McLean.

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The ethics of wine-drinking and tobacco-smoking / [Leo Tolstoi].

The death of Ivan Ilyich and other stories / Leo Tolstoy ; translated by Aylmer Maude and J.D. Duff ; with a new afterword by Hugh McLean.