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I found a wonderful Master's Thesis on Tolstoy and The Novel That Was War & Peace.  Anja Lydén-Sauri: Tekstin eetoksesta tekijän totuuteen: Leo Tolstoin kirjailijakuvan restaurointia. Pro gradu, Tampereen yliopisto 2000 ...

https://trepo.tuni.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/88036/gradu00036.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Unfortunately, it is in Finnish, but if yoiu wish to read about The Early Version Much Less War against  More The War And Peace Better Later Version spat, here is an article.

https://observer.com/2007/08/the-war-over-iwar-and-peacei/

Some excerots:

Mr. Zakharov spent a month editing Zaidenshnur’s monograph and printed 5,000 copies of it when he was done. On the back, he included a rousing editorial statement declaring that his version of War and Peace was better, shorter, and above all more authentic than the one people were used to.

“Twice as short, four times as interesting,” he promised. “More peace, less war.” Almost no philosophical digressions or incomprehensible French. A happy ending: “Prince Andrei and Petya Rostov remain alive.”

LOL:).. A very happy MidSummer Night and Dreams to all of you.

The cartoon copyright @peanuts. (This is one of my favourite Snoopy stories,another one is Joe Cool, and  the third one Snoopy writing his biography)

Tschaikovsky, and the piece June: (one of pieces for my funeral):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ucdew8O-mA