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id: maria-tolstaya
recordStatus: draft
liveStatus: enriches-live
type: person
title: Maria Tolstaya
titleEn: Maria Tolstaya
description: "Daughter who copied the final text of The Great Sin (1905) for Russkaya Mysl."
---

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## The Great Sin (1905) — the copyist

The copyist the <abbr title="Полное собрание сочинений — the 90-volume Jubilee edition of the complete works">PSS</abbr> commentary names as M. L. Obolenskaya (<span lang="ru">М. Л. Оболенская</span>) is the daughter Maria Lvovna, not the sister Maria Nikolaevna; the commentary itself names her as the daughter.[^1]

On 1 July 1905, by [[Dushan Makovitsky]]'s notes, the finished [[The Great Sin]] was given to her to copy for [[Russkaya Mysl]], with the plan of taking it to the post in person.[^1] Her copy has not survived. The commentary uses the lost copy to explain why the journal text differs in places from the surviving manuscripts: the differences may be corrections made in her copy.[^2]

## Dive provenance

- [1905-the-great-sin](../works/non-fiction/essays-and-criticism/1905-the-great-sin/index.md) (2026-06-30) — Maria Lvovna as the copyist of the final text sent to Russkaya Mysl (E20; commentary, PSS 36). Written as an enriches-live addition in the entity steer, 2026-08-12; resolves the dossier's disambiguation needsReview (she is the daughter); converted to the footnote style 2026-10-02.

[^1]: <span lang="ru">«Под 1 июля Д. П. Маковицкий сообщает в своих записках, что Толстой дал переписать статью своей дочери Марье Львовне Оболенской и сам хочет свезти ее на почту»</span> (PSS 36, commentary). English: ours.

[^2]: <span lang="ru">«была послана несохранившаяся рукопись, переписанная рукой М. Л. Оболенской. В этой рукописи могли быть сделаны рукой Толстого кое-какие исправления»</span>; the differences are put down <span lang="ru">«на счет возможных исправлений, сделанных Толстым в копии, переписанной М. Л. Оболенской»</span> (PSS 36, commentary). English: ours.