FTP, identify this story, which tells of Pozdnyshev's (POSED-nih-CHEVS) murder of his wife, written by Leo Tolstoy, and taking its title fr  om a violin composition by Beethoven.
After a concert in 1888, the author proposed that Andreyev-Burlak, Repin, and himself would each prepare an artistic work on this theme. Strongly influenced by a gynecological book by Alice Stockham and by Shaker writings, it was published in St. Pe  tersburg against the wishes of its author, and its bleak portrayal of marriage angered his wife, Sonya Andreyevna. FTP, identify this story, which tells of Pozdnyshev's (POSED-nih-CHEVS) murder of his wife, written by Leo Tolstoy, and taking its title fr  om a violin composition by Beethoven.
After a concert in 1888, the author proposed that Andreyev-Burlak, Repin, and himself would each prepare an artistic work on this theme.
The Kreutzer Sonata