The figure of Tolstoy, complex and multifaceted, fascinated his contemporaries as much as he fascinates today those who approach his works. The testimonies gathered in this volume reveal to us the writer, ascetic and moral thinker, but also the music lover, whose predilection for the most abstract of arts contains some keys to his thinking on creation and life. Each of the collected texts reflects an aspect of the excessive and fascinating personality of this man capable of inspiring sincere admiration in those who treated him, like the tiles that draw, piece by piece, the complex mosaic.