The biography of Sofia is Tolstoy

Born: August 22, she died: on November 4, she was the second daughter of the doctor of the Moscow Palace Office Andrei Evstafyevich Bers, who came from his father from the German nobles, and Lyubov Alexandrovna Bers Neevilvina. In her youth, her father served as a doctor with the Moscow Barryn Barbara Turgeneva and had a child from her, Varvara Zhitov, who thus turned out to be a half -sister and Sophia Tolstoy, and Ivan Turgenev.

Sophia was born in the country, which her father was filming, near the estate Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo, and ... up to the marriage of Sophia Bersa spent every summer there. Having received a good home education, Sofya passed the exam for the title of home teacher at Moscow University, and stood out by the Russian composition submitted to Professor Tikhonravova on the topic “Music”.

In August, she and her family went to Grandfather Islev Alexander Mikhailovich on his own estate, unlike her native grandmother Sofia Petrovna Kozlovskaya Ur. Zavodovskaya wife Sofya Alexandrovna Isleneva Ur. Zhdanova in the village of Ivitsa Odoevsky by the district province and on the way visited L. Tolstoy in Yasnaya Polyana. The first years of their married life were the happiest.

Tolstoy in his diary after marriage wrote: "Incidental happiness ... It cannot be that it all ended only in life." A friend of Tolstoy I. Borisov in the year about the spouses remarked: “She is the lovely good all. Harmally smart, simple and simple - there should be a lot of character in it, that is, her will in her team. He is in love with her to the Sirius.

No, the storm still did not calm down in his soul - she was quiet with the honeymoon, and, there probably, hurricanes and the sea of ​​angry noise will fly there. ” These words turned out to be prophetic. In years, due to a change in Tolstoy’s views on life, there was a discord in the family. Sofya Andreevna, who did not share the new ideas of her husband, his aspirations to abandon property, live her own, mainly physical labor, nevertheless perfectly understood what moral and human height he rose.

From a year, Tolstoy gave birth to her husband thirteen children, of which five died in childhood, the rest survived to a mature age.

For many years, Sofya Andreevna remained a faithful assistant to her husband in his affairs: a scriptor of manuscripts, a translator, secretary, publisher of his works. The artist Leonid Pasternak, who was closely familiar with the Tolstoy family, remarked about Sofya Andreevna: “... she was in many respects a large, outstanding person - in a couple of Lev Nikolayevich ...

Sofya Andreevna itself was a large person.” Possessing a subtle literary instinct, she wrote novels, children's stories, memoir essays. Throughout her life, with small interruptions, Sofya Andreevna kept a diary, about which they talk about as a noticeable and peculiar phenomenon in memoirs and literature on Tolstoy. Her hobbies were music, painting, photography. Tolstoy’s departure and death had a heavily affected Sofya Andreevna, she was deeply unhappy, could not forget that she had not seen her husband in consciousness before his death.

After the death of Tolstoy, she continued publishing, releasing her correspondence with her husband, completed the publication of the writer's works. Sofya Andreevna spent the last years of her life in Yasnaya Polyana, where she died on November 4. He was buried in the Kochakovsky cemetery, not far from Yasnaya Polyana. Detailed biography.