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Changes

What Tolstoy Today holds now, and what has changed since it began on October 23, 2026. A change is listed when a reader would notice it: a new part of the book or the site, a new way to read or find something, or a correction that changes the text. Smaller fixes are not.

What is here now

The book. Tolstoy’s Circle of Reading, the whole year: 366 days and 52 weekly readings, in Tolstoy’s Russian (the Jubilee edition) and a new English translation.
Sources. Show sources gives, under each quotation, where it came from and how closely Tolstoy kept it, with the source’s own words where they were found.
Reading. English, Russian, or Compare (the two side by side); text size; light or dark, with warmth and brightness. Today opens the current day, the Circle the days around it and the week’s reading, and the Calendar every day of the coming twelve months, each with its opening thought. On a phone the site can be installed, and its icon opens today’s reading; Copy link gives the address of any page, which the installed app does not show.
Studies. Authors: everyone Tolstoy quotes, each with a page of their passages, a date opening its day beside the list with the passages marked. Tolstoy’s Themes: the theme of each day, A to Z, a date opening its day beside the list. Leo Tolstoy as Editor: what he did with each quotation, and the passages he reworded in six kinds, a date opening its day beside the list with the passage marked.
Tolstoy’s voice. Three recordings of Tolstoy speaking words the Circle prints, two weekly readings and two thoughts, each with its text in Russian and English.
About Tolstoy Today. The editor’s note on how the site came to be; how the edition is made, who made it, and why all of it is free to use. Contact, to write to the editor, and Privacy, on what the site keeps and counts.
Languages. Two sites: this one in English, and a Russian site under /ru/, where everything around the book is in Russian, with an About page written for Russian readers. This change log is in English on both.

The log

November 2, 2026

The site is open to search engines, so a search can find any day, weekly reading, or study page, in English or Russian.
Contact: a way to write to the editor, on both sites, for corrections, questions, and suggestions.
Privacy: what stays on your device, what the site counts, and what becomes of a message you send.
A link to the site, shared in a message or a post, shows Nikolai Ge’s portrait of Tolstoy with the site’s name.
On a day’s page the date is the page’s heading, which screen readers announce.
Source links that no longer opened lead to their texts again: Tolstoy’s «Одумайтесь!» for nineteen passages, the Daodejing in Wang Bi’s text for sixteen, and Rousseau’s Émile (February 1), Mazzini’s Ricordi (February 23), and Wilson’s Vishnu Purana (August 29).

November 1, 2026

Tolstoy’s Voice: three recordings of Tolstoy speaking words the Circle prints, each with its waveform to tap or drag through and the text beneath it, in Russian and English. Two are weekly readings he spoke into the phonograph Thomas Edison sent him in 1908, The Thief’s Son (January 7) and The Power of Childhood (September 8); the third, a disc he recorded in English in 1909, speaks two thoughts the Circle prints on November 23 and 17. Each plays cleaned of noise, or as it came. In The Power of Childhood the paragraph being spoken is marked and kept in view, and a tap on a paragraph plays from it. It is listed under Studies.
The two weekly readings Tolstoy recorded lead to their recordings, under their title.
About: Edison sent Tolstoy the phonograph as a gift, as The New York Times reported on February 21, 1908; the page had left that unclear.

October 29, 2026

Five paragraphs that the digital text of the Jubilee edition had split where a page turns are whole again, each checked against the scan of the printed page: in Divine and Human (November 3), in the week’s reading of December 8, and on December 19, 29, and 30.
October 1 to 22: the last days of the year, twenty-two days and three weekly readings, in Russian and English, with the source of every signed quotation that was found: Living Relics (Turgenev’s story), The Law of God and the Law of This World (Chelčický), and Lamennais (Tolstoy’s essay). With them the whole year is here.
Leo Tolstoy as Editor: 35 of the reworded passages of October 1 to 22 join the six kinds; one more is listed at the end, with the reason. Tolstoy’s Themes gives their days.
Five attributions are corrected in brackets: Montaigne [Montesquieu] on October 1, From “Pious Thoughts” [Thomas à Kempis] on October 4, The Persian Jalal al-Din Rumi [Abu’l-Fazl] on October 20, Manchu proverb [Confucius] on October 21, and Chinese wisdom [Confucius] on October 22.
February 27’s Manchu proverb now shows its source, Julius Klaproth’s Chrestomathie mandchou (1828), found while October was being made, and is corrected in brackets: Manchu proverb [Mencius].
Copy link copies the address of the page: at the head of a day’s page and a week’s reading, above Show sources, and at the foot of every other page. In the app installed on a phone, which has no address bar, it is the way to send a page.
Authors: each writer’s passages begin with January, in the year’s own order, and so do the week’s readings listed there; they had begun with October, where the translation began.
September: all thirty days and five weekly readings, in Russian and English, with the source of every signed quotation that was found: Why Do People Stupefy Themselves? and Petr Chelčický (Tolstoy’s articles), The Runaway (Chekhov) and The Power of Childhood (Tolstoy after Hugo), From the Testament of a Mexican King and The Death of Socrates (Tolstoy after Plato’s Phaedo), and What For? (Tolstoy’s story).
Leo Tolstoy as Editor: 50 of September’s reworded passages join the six kinds; two more are listed at the end, with the reason. Tolstoy’s Themes gives September’s days.
Five attributions are corrected in brackets: Martineau [Constance Naden] on September 2, Matthew 8:3–4, 6 [Matthew 18:3–4, 6] on September 8, Madi [Saadi] on September 13, Martineau [Thomas Paine] on September 16, and Luther [Talmud and Luther] on September 21.
August 27’s Chinese proverb now shows its source, P. Perny’s Proverbes chinois (1869), found while September was being made.
August: all thirty-one days and four weekly readings, in Russian and English, with the source of every signed quotation that was found: The Great Bear (a legend Tolstoy translated from the English) and Turgenev’s The Sparrow, Maupassant’s Solitude, Nietzsche’s Catholicism and Christianity, and Sergei Nikolaev’s account of Henry George’s teaching on the land. The lines of verse in Solitude are set as verse.
Leo Tolstoy as Editor: 38 of August’s reworded passages join the six kinds; five more are listed at the end, with the reason. Tolstoy’s Themes gives August’s days.
Five attributions are corrected in brackets: Brahmin wisdom [Blavatsky] on August 4, Marcus Aurelius [Mazzini and Marcus Aurelius] on August 16, Matthew 6:9 [Matthew 6:7–8] on August 21, and Indian Mahmud Gasha [Mohamudgara] and Amiel [Channing] on August 29.
The Jubilee edition’s own list of misprints for its volume of January to August is applied: on March 31, in Korney Vasilyev, Kuzma had known Korney as Kornyushka, where the misprint had him call him so; on August 7 the proverb reads “you will not astonish people.” John 7:17 on November 3 reads “whether I speak on my own,” Tolstoy’s words, as on August 12.
July: all thirty-one days and four weekly readings, in Russian and English, with the source of every signed quotation that was found: Pascal (Tolstoy’s essay), The Order of the World, The Attitude of the First Christians to War, and the peasant Olkhovik’s letter (Lamennais, N. N. Gusev’s account as Tolstoy edited it, and Olkhovik), The Unbeliever (Hugo in Tolstoy’s Russian), and Repentance and Stones (Buka, and Tolstoy’s reworking of a parable). July 20’s Ovid, in A. P. Barykova’s Russian, is set as verse, line for line. July 30’s closing thought is signed.
Leo Tolstoy as Editor: 57 of July’s reworded passages join the six kinds; two more are listed at the end, with the reason. Tolstoy’s Themes gives July’s days, with one new theme from The Path of Life, Punishment.
Nine attributions are corrected in brackets: From “World’s Advance Thought” [Channing] on July 1, Luke 5:30–31 [Luke 6:30–31] on July 11, Chinese wisdom [Confucius] on July 13 and twice on July 16, The Talmud [Bahya ibn Paquda] and Brahmin wisdom [Blavatsky] on July 15, Eastern wisdom [Saadi] on July 22, and The Indian Vamana Purana [Vemana] on July 26.
Authors: John Ruskin’s and John Chrysostom’s passages, filed under the Bible since January was added, are on their own pages again.
Under Show sources, Tolstoy’s own other versions of a passage are labeled as his, and a further translation as another translation. Lavater’s aphorism on February 26 is shown in Louis Klopsch’s anthology of 1896, which reprints it; it had been given as Henry Southgate’s, which does not have it. Jefferson’s canons on January 7 are shown in Southgate’s own.
June’s weekly readings are signed as the rest of the year’s are: Leo Tolstoy, Lidia Avilova, and Fyodor Dostoevsky, in full.
June: all thirty days and five weekly readings, in Russian and English, with the source of every signed quotation that was found: The Darling (Chekhov’s story, with Tolstoy’s afterword), Must It Really Be So? (Tolstoy), First Grief (Avilova), Voluntary Servitude and The Eagle (La Boétie in Tolstoy’s own Russian, and Dostoevsky), and Berries (Tolstoy’s story). June 20’s opening thought is signed. The Circle’s note on La Boétie is shown under his heading.
Leo Tolstoy as Editor: 42 of June’s reworded passages join the six kinds; three more are listed at the end, with the reason. Tolstoy’s Themes gives June’s days, with two new themes of ours, Woman and Conscience.
Six attributions are corrected in brackets: Chinese wisdom [Confucius] on June 7, Lucy Mallory [Robert G. Ingersoll] on June 9, Thoreau [Emerson] on June 11, Eastern wisdom [Dhammapada] on June 13, From “Pious Thoughts” [Thomas à Kempis] on June 14, and Eastern wisdom [Mencius] on June 26.
May: all thirty-one days and four weekly readings, in Russian and English, with the source of every signed quotation that was found: Education and From a Letter on Education (Mazzini, and Tolstoy’s letter to Biryukov), A Death in the Hospital (Dostoevsky), The Law of Violence and the Law of Love (Buka), and The Trial of Socrates and His Defense (Tolstoy’s retelling of Plato’s Apology). May 24 and May 31 end with their last entry, with no closing thought, as the book prints them.
Leo Tolstoy as Editor: 52 of May’s reworded passages join the six kinds, with March 10’s, now traced to Gogol’s letter; eleven more are listed at the end, with the reason. Tolstoy’s Themes gives May’s days.
Ten attributions are corrected in brackets: Hadji Abdul Gezdi [Richard F. Burton] on May 1, Egyptian wisdom [al-Ahnaf ibn Qays] on May 8, Hindu proverb [Bhartrihari] on May 23, Chinese wisdom [Confucius] on May 3, 13, 17, and 19, and [Confucius and Zengzi] on May 24, and Buddhist wisdom [Dhammapada] twice on May 12.
Authors: the writers are listed surname first (“Alfieri, Vittorio”) under the letter of their name, with a row of the letters above them that stays in view while the list is read. On the Russian site, Ibrahim of Córdoba and Suleiman of Granada are named in Russian.
On a phone, a swipe turns to the week’s reading too, in the book’s order: from the week’s seventh day to its reading, and from the reading to the day after.
March 10’s thought after Gogol now shows its source, his letter to A. S. Danilevsky of 1843, found while May was being made. In the Russian text, an italic mark that sat beside its word in January, February, March, and April now sits on it.
April: all thirty days and four weekly readings, in Russian and English, with the source of every signed quotation that was found: Good (A. I. Arkhangelsky, who signed himself Buka), The Street Vendor (Anatole France’s “Crainquebille”), From a Letter (Alexandre Dumas fils), and A Grain as Big as a Hen’s Egg (Tolstoy’s own tale). April 14’s closing thought is signed, as February 22’s are.
A weekly reading’s own note on a paragraph is shown under it, called by an asterisk: the Russian translator’s note in The Street Vendor on April 14, and, on the Russian site, Tolstoy’s gloss of «кутята» in Resurrection on February 18.
Leo Tolstoy as Editor: April’s 56 reworded passages join the six kinds, with February 1’s thought signed Buka; three more, Talmud sayings whose source is only probable, are listed at the end. Tolstoy’s Themes gives April’s days, with two new themes of ours, Suffering and Illness.
Three attributions are corrected in brackets: Smiles [Richard Sharp] on April 4, Vamana Purana [Vemana] on April 22, and Chinese wisdom [Confucius] on April 25.
February 1’s thought signed Buka now shows its source, A. I. Arkhangelsky’s «Кому служить?» (Moscow, 1920), found while April was being made.

October 28, 2026

March: all thirty-one days and five weekly readings, in Russian and English, with the source of every signed quotation that was found: Poor People (Tolstoy’s retelling of Victor Hugo), Union and A Sea Voyage (Schopenhauer and Turgenev), Nonresistance to Evil by Violence (Adin Ballou, with Tolstoy’s note on him), The Coffeehouse of Surat (Tolstoy’s version of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre), and Korney Vasilyev (Tolstoy’s own story). March 12’s opening thought is signed, as February 22’s are.
Leo Tolstoy as Editor: March’s 54 reworded passages join the six kinds; four more are listed at the end, with the reason. Tolstoy’s Themes gives March’s days, with six new themes: Excess, Pride, and Truthfulness (from The Path of Life), Repentance (Tolstoy’s own name for a section), and Marriage and Wisdom (ours).
Five attributions are corrected in brackets: Benchasai [Ben Azzai] on March 3, Vamana Purana [Vemana] on March 5, Luke 26:18 [Luke 16:18] on March 11, and Chinese wisdom [Confucius] twice on March 28.
On the Russian site, the source of each paragraph in a week of two works now names its own work: Strakhov’s notes on February 4, Resurrection on February 18, and Prayer on February 25 had been given the first work’s title.
February: all twenty-nine days and four weekly readings, in Russian and English, with the source of every signed quotation that was found: Reason (Schopenhauer and Fyodor Strakhov), The Buddha (Tolstoy’s own retelling), Self-Renunciation and The Free Man (Lamennais, and Tolstoy’s Resurrection), and The Archangel Gabriel and Prayer (Attar, and Tolstoy’s story). On February 22 the opening and closing thoughts are signed, as entries are.
Leo Tolstoy as Editor: February’s 44 reworded passages join the six kinds; seven whose source is only probable are listed at the end. Tolstoy’s Themes gives February’s days, with one new theme, Simplicity.
Three attributions are corrected in brackets: Seneca [Cicero] on February 14, Matthew 8:35 [Mark 8:35] on February 18, and Chinese wisdom [Confucius] on February 10.
The Calendar: a month pressed in the row of months now glides to its month and settles there. Titles in translation notes are in italics.
Six of November’s thoughts signed “From Pious Thoughts” now show their source: the anthology itself, Pious Thoughts and Instructions (Благочестивые мысли и наставления), in its 1872 printing (Tolstoy used the third edition, of 1879), found while January was being made. They are November 4, the third and fourth thoughts; November 24, the first, second and seventh; and November 29, the first. In two of them Tolstoy changed the sense: on November 4 “what you are quite unsure of” became “what you are not quite sure of,” and on November 24 “is not pleasing to God” became “founded on the love of God.”
Mazzini’s chapter on November 11 is named as the 1860 edition names it, “Doveri verso se stessi”; Carlyle’s “The Didactic” on November 12 is placed in Book IV of Past and Present, where it is, not Book III.
Leo Tolstoy as Editor: two of those thoughts join it, November 4’s fourth under A different point and November 24’s seventh under Recast in Tolstoy’s faith. A date on its pages now opens the day beside the list, the passage marked, as on Authors and Themes.

October 27, 2026

Print this day prints the reading alone, without its sources or notes, on a set measure and always on light paper, fitted to one page where it can (most days); a longer day runs to a second page with its passages kept whole. A weekly reading prints the same way over its pages.
On a phone, a swipe to the left or right turns to the next or the previous day. Swipe between days, under the settings, turns it off.
Source reports, rebuilt on both sites. A passage whose wording Tolstoy changed opens with what changed, from Leo Tolstoy as Editor, and a link to its kind, and while its report is open the changed words are marked in his text and in the source. Then come what Tolstoy read, the original in its own language and script (Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, and Persian right to left) with its translation, his other versions, and, under Details, the place, the check, and the research note.
January: all thirty-one days and four weekly readings, translated from Tolstoy’s Russian (the Jubilee edition’s vol. 41), the sources of 117 of its 127 signed quotations found and checked word for word, and all of it read a second time by Claude Fable; on both sites. The weekly readings are Tolstoy’s retelling of a story by Leskov, his legend “The Repentant Sinner,” Lamennais with two passages of Tolstoy’s own, and the first chapters of his “Christian Teaching.”
Leo Tolstoy as Editor: January’s 26 passages whose wording Tolstoy changed, added to the six kinds; seven more are listed as left out, with the reason.
Tolstoy’s Themes: January’s days added, with four new names (The Need for Faith, Freedom, Anger, and Thought). The one section name the Jubilee edition records, The Need for Faith, belongs to the day printed as January 2; the page had said January 1.
The Russian site, under /ru/: the same book with everything around it in Russian, the labels and dates, the day’s navigation, the source of each quotation, the three studies, and an About page written for Russian readers. The language switch leads to the same page on the other site; Compare sets the two languages side by side on either.
About: an Editor’s Note by David Neufer, on how the site came to be.
A slip of the digitized Russian mended on October 24, entry 3 (Epictetus): «Когда ты бранить» for «бранишь», as Jubilee vols. 40 and 43 print the same thought.
On a wide screen the font size and light or dark have a button each, Tt and a sun or moon, in place of the one button Aa.
The site can be installed on a phone, as an app: its icon, a circle with a T, opens today’s reading. The same icon marks the browser tab.
About opens with a list of its sections.
On a phone the smallest type is larger: the footer and its links, entry numbers, source labels, captions, and the Calendar’s weekday names.
On a phone Studies has a button of its own, and the settings (the language, the font size, and light or dark) are under a gear, in place of the menu that held both.

October 26, 2026

October 30 and 31, the two days between the first week and November, translated, with their four quotations traced to their sources (Fénelon, Amiel, Lichtenberg, and Henry George). October 30’s theme is Self-Renunciation, one of Tolstoy’s own names for the Circle’s sections.
Tolstoy’s Themes: the theme of each day translated so far, fifty in all, named from Tolstoy’s own names for the Circle’s sections where one fits. A date opens its day in a drawer beside the list.
Leo Tolstoy as Editor: a chart of what Tolstoy did with each signed quotation, and the six kinds of change he made to their wording, with the changed words highlighted in all 46 examples.
Authors: everyone Tolstoy quotes, 107 names, each with a page of their passages in the order of the year.
A Studies menu beside the Calendar. The view with both languages side by side is renamed Compare.
Source notes: working remarks removed or rewritten for readers.
The labels around the book stay in English whichever language is chosen, and About and the studies stay in English when Russian is chosen, until the site is written for Russian readers.
The Calendar is the first page localized for Russian: with Russian chosen, all of it is in Russian, as a test of the site in Russian. Its language switch has English and Russian only.
The opening thought in the Calendar’s text box is set at the size of a day’s reading.
On an author’s page, a passage’s date opens its whole day in a drawer beside the list, with that author’s passages marked by a line.
A day’s navigation is the Circle, in place of the week strip: the day’s month, the day before, the day, and the day after, then the week’s reading (its title on hover) and Today. On a phone the bar at the foot holds the day before, Today, the day, the week’s reading, and the day after, with the page the reader is on in orange.
A weekly reading says where it comes from under its title and again at its end, in place of the sources switch, and lists its translation notes after it; the source of each paragraph is under a fold.
Today stands beside the Calendar on every other page, marked on today’s own page, as the Calendar is on the Calendar.
Text size and light or dark share one button, Aa. On a phone the header is one line, with the language, Aa, and the studies in a menu.
The language switch offers only what a page has: English, Compare, and Russian on the days; English and Russian on the Calendar; English alone on the pages written in English for now.
With Russian chosen, a day’s heading, its month and weekday, is in Russian.

October 25, 2026

The site moves to tolstoytoday.org.
The Calendar shows a rolling twelve months from the current one. On a touch screen, pressing and holding a day shows its opening thought.

October 24, 2026

December: all thirty-one days and five weekly readings, translated, traced, and read a second time.
November 24: the end of Bishop Myriel and the day’s own closing thought, missing at first, restored.
Reading conditions (light or dark, warmth, and brightness) and text size.
The Calendar, the year as a grid of months, with each day’s opening thought.
About this edition: how the edition is made, Nikolai Ge’s 1884 portrait of Tolstoy, why all of it is free to use, and the credits.

October 23, 2026

The first week, October 23 to 29, in Russian and English, with the sources of its quotations, read a second time by Claude Fable.
November: all thirty days and four weekly readings, translated, traced, and read a second time.