This translation includes the complete set of Tolstoy’s thoughts and selected quotations for all 366 days of the year (including February 29 for leap years), but excludes the weekly readings, which are longer extracts from various works, including Tolstoy’s. The text of the daily readings is presented in full, without abridgement.
The source text is the Jubilee Edition of Tolstoy’s collected works in 90 volumes (volumes 41 and 42), which is based on the second edition of the Circle of Reading, published in 1908.1
For English quotations I have endeavored to track down the original texts, but, in cases where this was not possible, I have translated the quotations back into English from Tolstoy’s Russian.
Each day is structured as a sequence of quotations. Unmarked thoughts may or may not be Tolstoy’s. Italicized passages are thoughts that Tolstoy highlighted as being especially important.