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- ↑ Parini, Jay. The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Final Year . Retrieved 31 March 2014– via Amazon.
- ↑ "The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Final Year (Paperback)". Phoenix Books.
- ↑ "Review: 'The Last Station'". Variety . 9 August 1999. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
