![]() ![]() He begins prioritizing social mobility early in his law career, making steady progression up the ranks of the Russian law circles. ![]() In life, Ivan Ilyich was a decent student. Peter Ivanovich, one of Ivan Ilyich’s more personal work acquaintances, attends the funeral service, where Ivan Ilyich’s widow Praskovya Fedorovna questions him about whether she might acquire a higher pension from her husband’s death. ![]() ![]() His former law colleagues quickly overcome their initial surprise at seeing his obituary in the newspaper, then move on to other general gossip before heading back to work. Ivan Ilyich Golovin (Ilyich is his patronymic-Russian middle names are based on the name of one’s father, and polite address uses the first and middle names) passes away on February 4, 1882. This summary is based on the 1967 edition of Perennial Library’s Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. Tolstoy, whose best-known works are War and Peace (1867) and Anna Karenina (1877), is widely considered to be one of the most influential fiction authors the world over. Tolstoy was born into aristocracy and was popular at a time when Russia was under the autocratic rule of Tsar Nicholas II, the last Russian emperor of the Romanov Dynasty. ![]()
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