Biographies

• The Tragedy of Tolstoy This biography of her father by Aleksandra Tolstaya, published in 1933, gives a first-hand view of the last years of Tolstoy's life. Aleksandra's bitterness toward her mother allows the reader to experience the family conflict from the inside.
• Lev Tolstoy: His Life and Work by Pavel Biryukov. This is the first of a two-volume biography of Tolstoy, written with Tolstoy's cooperation by his former secretary.
• Reminiscences of Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy by Maxim Gorky.
• First Recollections: An Autobiographical Fragment by Leo Tolstoy
• Count Tolstoi and the Public Censor by Isabel F. Hapgood
• Reminiscences of Tolstoy by Ilya Lvovich Tolstoy, his son
• A Visit to Count Tolstoi  by George Kennan

Literary Criticism/Analysis

• Aleksandra Tolstaya on Kreutzer Sonata
• Tolstoy's Kreutzer Sonata by Isabel Hapgood
• Russian Novels and Novelists of the Day
  by S. E. Shevitch
  North American Review, March 1879
• William Dean Howells on Tolstoy - from My Literary Passions, 1895
  There are plenty of novelists to tell you that their characters felt and thought so and so, but you have to take it on trust; Tolstoy alone makes you know how and why it was so with them and not otherwise. 

Works by Tolstoy