Sophie Tolstoy

"I am a source of satisfaction to him, a nurse, a piece of furniture, a woman - nothing more”

I have been reading about Sophie (Sonya) Tolstoy........and how Leo Tolstoy her husband requested that the couple keep diaries and share them with each other....some of her writings are so sad........she wanted to be so much more to her husband than 'just' a wife and mother.....she had 16 children....three of whom died.........

So I have been reading excerpts from her diaries and I find that she would have fitted in perfectly on todays forums like LP and hunnybeez....it seems many marriages (and the lives of women) haven't changed at all in the almost 150 years since she married Leo.......

I find this couple fascinating...........