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Countess Sophia Behrs married Leo Tolstoy when she was 18 and he was 34. They were husband and wife for 48 years, had 13 children, and she outlived him by nine years. Yet their relationship, among the most discussed and written about in literary history, was anything but harmonious, as Sophia, an artist in her own right - a photographer, memoirist, and editor - was constantly forced to negotiate her happiness with her husband’s infidelities. (Zipporah)