LEO TOLSTOY WELCOMES EUGENE SCHUYLER, HIS AMERICAN TRANSLATOR OF WAR AND PEACE, FOR A VISIT WHILE WRITING THE MASTERPIECE

COUNT LEV (LEO) NIKOLAYEVICH TOLSTOY (1828-1910). Tolstoy was an internationally celebrated Russian writer, best known for perpetual classics War and Peace and Anna Karenina.

ALS. 1pg. N.d. [1868] N.p. An autograph letter signed “C. L. Tolstoy”. Tolstoy wrote in English to Eugene Schuyler (1840-1890), the American scholar and diplomat who was Tolstoy’s first American translator. Tolstoy welcomed Schuyler for his 1868 weeklong visit to Tolstoy’s home, Yasnaya Polyana. He was writing War and Peace at the time. “My Dear Sir, We will be very glad to see you The sooner The better. If you will name the day of your arrival I will send an equipage To fetch you at the…station 20 further than Tula. Yours truly C. L. Tolstoy”. Tolstoy and Schuyler met and became friends during Schuyler’s time as an American diplomat in Russia from 1864 to 1876. The letter is in very good condition with ink stains on the lower margin from being folded.