leskof's

Updated: July 2, 2026

I remember how, after N. S. Leskof's death, my father read me his posthumous instructions with regard to a pauper funeral, with no speeches at the grave, and so on, and how the idea of writing his own will then came into his head for the first time. His first will was written in his diary, on March 27, 1895.

Graf Ilia Lvovich Tolstoi - Reminiscences of Tolstoy