First strikes in St Petersburg, followed by similar disturbances elsewhere. Numerous people arrested and imprisoned.
Tolstoy starts work on a novel about Peter the Great, writes a series of readers for peasants and learns Greek. Sofia writes a short story called ‘Sparrows’, and Russian and French grammars for her children.
5th June. I have been weaning Lyova for four days now.* I am almost sadder with him than I was with the others. I blessed him, and cried and prayed for him. It’s very hard, this first separation from one’s baby. I think I must be pregnant again. With each new child one sacrifices a little more of one’s life and accepts an even heavier burden of anxieties and illnesses.