On This Day September 23

Russian author Leo Tolstoy married Sophia Andreevna Behrs, daughter of a German physician, on September 23, 1862. She was 16 years his junior. Sophia was pregnant 16 times and she gave birth to 13 children (The other three were still born). She still found the energy to work as her husband's unpaid assistant deciphering and copying his drafts. Tolstoy described his wife as "good, loving and beloved".

Sophia Tolstaya and daughter Alexandra Tolstaya

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