These radical beliefs made him seek to reject his inherited and earned wealth and renounce the copyrights on his earlier works. As Tolstoy's beliefs became more radical, his relationship with his wife deteriorated. Unlike the first years of their marriage, their later life together was unhappy. She was copying and handwriting his epic works time after time. She was supportive of Tolstoy as she acted as his secretary, editor, and financial manager for his works: War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Despite this, they enjoyed a happy start to the marriage. On the eve of their marriage, Tolstoy gave her his diaries which had details about his extensive sexual past and the secret son whom one of the serfs had borne him. Tolstoy and Sophia had thirteen children, five of whom did not survive childhood. Her family and friends called her Sonya which is the Russian diminutive of Sofia. Tolstoy married Sophia Andreevna Behrs, who was 16 years his junior on September 23, 1862.
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