As Leo Tolstoy\'s wife, Sophia Tolstoy experienced both glory and condemnation during their forty-eight-year marriage.
And it is this version of Sophia--malicious, shrill, perennially at war with Tolstoy--that has gone down in the historical record..
But when in later years Tolstoy became a towering public figure and founded a new brand of religion, she was scorned for her disagreements with him.
She was admired as the muse and literary assistant to one of the world\'s most celebrated novelists.
As Leo Tolstoy\'s wife, Sophia Tolstoy experienced both glory and condemnation during their forty-eight-year marriage