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Why I love Tolstoy: "Nikolai set out after the first troika; behind him the rest came rattling and screeching... As they drove past the garden, shadows from the bare trees often lay across the road and obscured the bright light of the moon, but as soon as they drove beyond the fence, a plain of snow, sparkling like diamonds, with a dove-blue sheen, bathed in moonlight and motionless, opened out on all sides."