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Set in the previous tumultuous years of Leo Tolstoy's life, The Last Station centers around the fight for his heart and soul waged by his partner, Sofya Andreyevna, and his leading disciple, Vladimir Cherkov. Torn between his professed codtrine of poverty and chastity and the truth of his enormous wealth, his thirteen children, and a life of hedonism, Tolstoy makes a remarkable airline flight from his home. Too ill to continue beyond the very small rail station at Astapovo, he feels that he's dying exclusively, whle over one hundred newspapermen camp outside awaiting hourly accounts on his condidtion. An excellent recreation of your brain and tortured heart and soul of 1 of the world's most significant novelists, The Last Train station is a richly inventive novel that dances bewitchingly between simple fact and fiction.