The figure of Tolstoy, complex and multifaceted, fascinated his contemporaries as much as he fascinates those who approach his works today. The writer, the moral thinker, the ascetic, the count, the landowner, the laborer and, above all, the man capable of inspiring a sincere admiration in those who treated him, are reflected in these testimonies of people who knew him, They tried it or they just watched it for years. Each of them re fl ects an aspect of his disproportionate and fascinating personality, as if it were a tile that draws, piece by piece, the complex mosaic.