Many great people live for their dreams and often die in poverty, becoming famous only after death, while others spend their lives on the next refrigerator, no one will even remember them and think that they are the most intelligent and business. Count Leo Tolstoy abandoned all luxury and smelled the land in the village as a peasant, dressed as a peasant, ate simple food. His contemporaries also considered him a poor man, laughed at him. Who only remembers them now? Who doesn’t know Tolstoy?
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Count Tolstoy was employed by generations of serfs belonging to his ancestors and for some time to himself, if anything.
And yet his sudden at old age desire to dress and eat like a peasant did not prevent his wife, numerous children and grandchildren from dressing and eating like landlords. He did the same thing in his youth.