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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Reminiscences of Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy: "Gazette" on November 6, 1911.
Mr. Strakhof left Moscow at night. He had calculated on
Sófya Andréyevna,¹ whose presence at
Yásnaya Polyána was highly inexpedient for the
business on
¹Five weeks after Leskóf's death.
²The Countess Tolstoy.
which he was bound, being still in Moscow.
The business in question, as was made clear in the preliminary
consultation which V. G. Tchertkof held with N. K. Muravyof, the
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