Photo: Tolstoy and I in our youth.
Now we come to my role in the creation of Tolstoy’s greatest novel, War and Pooch. This was the original title of the book.
As you can see from our portrait, taken by the famous German photographer Schwartzweißkopf, Tolstoy had a massive beard so big a Shih Tzu such as myself could hide in it without fear of being disco…
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