Volume 21, Number 19 · November 28, 1974
Tolstoy and His Quaker
By Alfred Kazin
Aylmer Maude (1858-1938) was an English businessman in czarist Russia, a committed Quaker, and a frequent visitor to Tolstoy's great estate at Yasnaya Polyana. With his Russian-born wife Louise, Maude translated Tolstoy's principal works. Tolstoy, who knew English well, said that these were the best English translations of his work. This was at a time when many English versions of the novels were being made from old French versions, so that Tolstoy's name was still ridiculously spelled Tolstoi.
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