Transcriber's Note:

This e-book only contains the front matter of Tolstoy's Plays (Complete Edition).The individual plays have been posted as separate Project Gutenberg e-books;they are linked to from this book's table of contents.

From Leo Tolstoy concerningthe translation of his works byLouise and Aylmer Maude:—

“Better translators, both forknowledge of the two languagesand for penetration into the verymeaning of the matter translated,could not be invented.”