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All Tolstoy's Parties #5

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This is a bonus post for paying subscribers to accompany a weekly discussion post on Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace. It’s just a bit of fun.

The Dinner Table by Henri Matisse

#5 Flying dinner plates, Tikhon! (2/5)

After the great Rostov shindig, I fancied a bit of a bucolic excursion far from the busy bustle of the two capitals. So when my friend Mikhail Ivan…

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