Another of this author's characters is comforted by his servantGerasim.
In one of this author's stories, the seventeen year old Masha watches her marriage to thethirty-six year old Mikhailych disintegrate when she becomes enthralled with St. Petersburg'ssociety life. He wrote of Prince Stepan Kasatsky cutting off his finger to resist temptation afterbecoming the title monk of another story. This author of "Family Happiness" and "Father Sergius"wrote work whose title character tries to rescue his son Yusuf by fighting against the (*) ImamShamil. He wrote a story in which Pozdnyshev tells strangers on a train of the time that he killed his wifewhile she was sleeping with a violinist. Another of this author's characters is comforted by his servantGerasim. For 10 points, name this Russian author of Hadji Murad, The Kreutzer Sonata and The Death ofIvan Illych, who also wrote long fiction like War and Peace.
In one of this author's stories, the seventeen year old Masha watches her marriage to thethirty-six year old Mikhailych disintegrate when she becomes enthralled with St. Petersburg'ssociety life.
Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy