afanasyevitch's

Updated: May 23, 2025

It was only during the last years of Fet's life, when my father was entirely absorbed in his new ideas, which were so at variance with Afanasyi Afanasyevitch's whole philosophy of life, that they became estranged and met more rarely. It was at Fet's, at Stepanovka, that my father and Turgenieff quarreled.

Graf Ilia Lvovich Tolstoi - Reminiscences of Tolstoy