TOLSTOY, Count LEO NIKOLAYEVICH (1828-1910). Postcard photograph signed and dated ("Leo Tolstoy 1905, 12 December"), by R. Thiele (imprint and caption on lower margin), J. Beagles & Co. [London], n.d. [circa 1905]. 139 x 88 mm. (5½ x 3½ in.) including margins, some minor oxidation on image, fingerprint (Tolstoy's?) on last letters of date. A bold half-length standing pose showing the Russian novelist with flowing white beard dressed in peasant garb, signed on the lower margin. In his last years Tolstoy embraced Christian anarchism and non-violence, liberated the serfs on his estate and altered his lifestyle and dress to express his spiritual identification with the peasants, as this photograph shows.
TOLSTOY, Count LEO NIKOLAYEVICH (1828-1910). Postcard photograph signed and dated ("Leo Tolstoy 1905, 12 December"), by R. Thiele (imprint and caption on lower margin), J. Beagles & Co. [London], n.d. [circa 1905]. 139 x 88 mm. (5½ x 3½ in.) including margins, some minor oxidation on image, fingerprint (Tolstoy's?) on last letters of date. A bold half-length standing pose showing the Russian novelist with flowing white beard dressed in peasant garb, signed on the lower margin. In his last years Tolstoy embraced Christian anarchism and non-violence, liberated the serfs on his estate and altered his lifestyle and dress to express his spiritual identification with the peasants, as this photograph shows.
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