Reprint of a book published in 1929. This is a collection of memoirs by people who knew the young Leo Tolstoi and his biographers: B. Eikhenbaum, N. Zagoskin, N. Gusev, N. Stakhovich, B. Modzalevskii, etc. Also included are excerpts from Tolstoi"s diaries and letters of this period. The book covers the first 36 years of the writer"s life. All sources are arranged chronologically and provided with commentary.