Publisher's Synopsis
Originally publlished in Russia in 1919, the first half of this book, consisting of notes, was written between 1900 and 1901 when Tolstoi, Gorky, and Tchekhov were living in the Crimea. The second half consists of a letter written by Gorky in 1910 at the time of Tolstoi's death. Additional notes, not included in the first Russian edition, have been included in this English translation published in 1920 by Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press, which was at the forefont of publishing translations of foreign works, particularly from the Russian.
