Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of Leo Tolstoy seated in a wheelchair, his doctor standing behind him. A note written on the print by Sydney Cockerell, who visited Tolstoy in 1903, reads: 'He is now quite well and perfectly splendid - S. C. C. July 23 1903.' Postcard (original photograph).
COCKERELL PAPERS. Vol. CXIV (ff. 320). Meynell. includes: ff. 1-6 Everard Meynell, author: Letters to S. C. Cockerell: 1907-1925. ff. 7-13 Wilfrid Meynell, author: Letters to S. C. Cockerell: 1925-1944. ff. 14-310 Viola Meynell, novelist: Letters to S. C. Cockerell: 1941-1951. f. 312 Sir Franc...
[Portrait of Leo Tolstoy.] Photographer: Scherer and Nabholz
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Genre: Portrait Photography Half-length portrait of Leo Tolstoy in peasant dress. A Russian postcard published in 1903. For an original print of the photograph from which this postcard was made, see f. 120.