"Complete Works in 4 Volumes" by A.K. Tolstoy St. Petersburg, A.F. Marx Publishing House, 1907. Format: 14.2 * 19.7 cm; about 2000 pp. The frontispiece of the first volume is decorated with the famous bust portrait of the author with his own facsimile signature, made at the A.F. Marx Artistic Institution. Critical and biographical essay - Alexey Tolstoy (Literary Portrait) - compiled by the Russian literary historian and bibliographer S.A. Vengerov. The collection is dedicated to Her Imperial Majesty Empress Maria Alexandrovna. Volume 1. Poems, stories, dramas. - Epics, ballads, parables. - Songs, essays. - Translations, adaptations. - Satires, jokes. 1907. 540 p.; portrait. Volume 2. Dramatic trilogy (I. The Death of Ivan the Terrible; II. Tsar Feodor Ivanovich; III. Tsar Boris). - Appendices to the dramatic trilogy. 1907. 623 p. Volume 3. Fiction: The Ghoul; The Ghoul's Family; Two Days in the Kirghiz Steppe; Artemy Semenovich Bervenkovsky; Amena (an excerpt from the novel "Stebelovsky"); Prince Serebryany. A Tale of the Time of Ivan the Terrible. 1907. 472 p. Volume 4. Diary. - Correspondence, etc. - Bibliography of the works of Count A.K. Tolstoy. 1908. 316 p. Alexey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817-1875) - Russian prose writer, poet, playwright. He was born into a noble family. He spent his childhood in the Chernigov province on the estate of his uncle Alexei Perovsky (known in literature under the pseudonym Anton Pogorelsky), who encouraged the boy's early literary interests. In 1834 he was enrolled in the Moscow archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, then he was in the diplomatic service in Germany, and in 1843 he received the court title of chamberlain. He traveled a lot around Russia and visited abroad. In the 1840s he began working on the historical novel "Prince Silver", which he completed in 1861. During this period he also wrote a number of ballads and lyric poems. In 1854, together with his cousins ​​the Zhemchuzhnikovs, he created the satirical literary mask of Kozma Prutkov and a collection of his works. During the Crimean War, A.K. Tolstoy entered military service and was appointed aide-de-camp. However, not feeling much desire for service, he resigned in 1861. The writer lived alternately, sometimes in his estate near St. Petersburg - Pustynka, sometimes in his mother's estate - in Chernigov region. In 1866-1870 he published a historical trilogy, including the tragedies "The Death of Ivan the Terrible", "Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich", "Tsar Boris", which became the pinnacle of his work. The deterioration of his financial situation contributed to the development of the disease: he was tormented by asthma and terrible neuralgic headaches. On September 28, 1875, during another severe attack, A.K. Tolstoy made a mistake and injected himself with too much morphine, which led to the death of the writer.