Talks with Tolstoi opens a remarkable close-up portrait of Leo Tolstoy seen through nearly fifteen years of friendship, as recorded by the Russian pianist A. B. Goldenveizer and translated by S. S. Koteliansky and Virginia Woolf. What emerges is not polished biography but living testimony: Tolstoy speaking in his own voice, at once severe and playful, prophetic and intimate, while his private world at Yasnaya Polyana comes vividly into view. Beginning with Goldenveizer's first visit in 1896, the book follows conversations about music, art, religion, education, labor, and the moral crises of modern civilization. Tolstoy praises sincerity over technique, condemns empty virtuosity, industrial exploitation, and institutionalized schooling, and insists that true freedom depends on ethical life and human solidarity. Yet he is also tender, humorous, and deeply responsive to beauty, moved to tears by Tyutchev, delighted by Mozart and Haydn, and full of admiration for peasant life, cooperative labor, and simple human kindness. Throughout, this memoir reveals Tolstoy as a restless, uncompromising thinker whose ideas are inseparable from his daily habits, his household, and his enduring search for truth. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.