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For more on the epistolary section of the Tolstaya archive, see Andrew Donskov (ed.), My Life, pp. 1046–56 and Andrew Donskov, Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya: Literary works, pp. 487–521. For additional English sources on Tolstoy’s works, see: David Egan & Melinda Egan, Leo Tolstoy: an annotated bibliography of English language sources to 1978 (New Jersey & London: Scarecrow Press, 1979) and: David Egan & Melinda Egan, Leo Tolstoy: an annotated bibliography of English language sources from 1978 to 2003 (New Jersey & London: Scarecrow Press, 2005).