"The study was slowly lit up as the candle was brought in. The familiar details came out: the stag’s horns, the bookshelves, the looking-glass, the stove with its ventilator, which had long wanted mending, his father’s sofa, a large table, on the table an open book a broken ash-tray, a manuscript-book with his handwriting. As he saw all this, there came over him for an instant a doubt of the possibility of arranging the new life, of which he had been dreaming on the road.", no cap. 25 do livro 1 de Anna Karénina, uma das poucas (naturezas-mortas) mas tornada especial pelo movimento da luz que vai iluminando os objectos à medida que os nossos olhos caem neles.
and Tolstoi's own study, to see and read more about here.
Yasnaya Polyana.
a sua mulher, Sophia, passava a limpo de noite o que Tolstoi escrevia e rescrevia de dia, assim diz a wikipédia. Sophia escreveu sete vezes a Guerra e Paz. Sophia teve 13 filhos.
('his father's sofa', o sofá de pele preto no escritório do escrito foi onde ele próprio nasceu, assim como todos os seus filhos)
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