styopa's

Updated: May 11, 2025

And I began to think: "Who am I? What am I?" and so I spent the whole night thinking about it. "Why, imagine this is Socrates! 'Know thyself," said my father, telling the story with great enthusiasm. In the autumn he used to go wolf-hunting with my father and us, with the borzois, and Agafya Mikhailovna loved him for that. Styopa's examination was in the spring.

Graf Ilia Lvovich Tolstoi - Reminiscences of Tolstoy