![]() ![]() ![]() The book was to be published serially simultaneously in Russia, Germany, France, England and America, to quickly raise funds and give him time to finish the story, but delayed due to contract "difficulties" requiring parts to be censored and shortened. ![]() In August 1898 he urgently decided to finish, copyright and sell it to aid the emigration of the most persecuted third of the pacifist Spiritual Christian Dukhobortsy from Russia to Canada. The novel was an unfinished draft which Tolstoy (age 71) began 10 years earlier as the "Konevskaya story". ![]()
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