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Shall Tolstoy leave the copyright and the enormous profits from his worldly masterpieces to Sofya and their children?
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"I think Tolstoy himself would have been perplexed by all this, but Sofya, his wife, would have been over the moon, " Mirren said.
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The women's lightweight division pits Russia's Sofya Ochigava against Ireland's Katie Taylor, who produced an electric display in front of a capacity crowd of 10, 000 mostly Irish fans at London's ExCel arena.
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One of the suspects still at large, 20-year old Sofya Dikova, left her MySpace profile public, and it offers a glimpse into the life of a young woman who hardly seems to be a hardened cybercriminal.
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The little station, in the middle of a vast Russian nowhere, quickly became the site of a protomedia frenzy when telegraph wires flashed news of Tolstoy's illness, and Sofya came to see her beloved husband for the last time.
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"The Last Station" was adapted from the novel by Jay Parini, and its structure is fairly intricate parallel love stories (Tolstoy and Sofya, Valentin and Masha), plus interlocking triangles (Sofya and Chertkov contending for Tolstoy's soul, Sofya and Chertkov pumping Valentin for information about one another's grip on Tolstoy's property).
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