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- ↑ Inessa Medzhibovskaya (2009). Tolstoy and the Religious Culture of His Time: A Biography of a Long Conversion, 1845-1885. Lexington Books. p. 297.
- ↑ The Berkeley Undergraduate Journal. University of California, Berkeley. Undergraduate Programs. 1990.
- ↑ Orwin (2002). The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy. Cambridge University Press. p. 173.
- ↑ Henry W. Pickford (2015). Thinking with Tolstoy and Wittgenstein: Expression, Emotion, and Art. Northwestern University Press.
- ↑ Ernest Joseph Simmons (2014). Tolstoy. Taylor & Francis. p. 151.
