Family Happiness is an 1859 novel written by Leo Tolstoy. The story concerns the relationship between a young girl, Mashechka, and the much older Sergey Mikhaylych, an old family friend. After a somewhat awkward courthsip, the two are married and move to Mikhaylych's home. Over the course of the novel, Mashechka finds that married life and her feelings for Mikhaylych are much more complex than she had thought and have little to do with her previous, slightly naive, notions of marriage, hence the ironic overtones of the title, "Family Happiness." 1859 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... Lev Tolstoy, pictured late in life Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy   listen? (Russian: Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й; commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy) (September 9, 1828 – November 20, 1910; August 28, 1828 – November 7, 1910, O.S.) was a Russian novelist, social reformer, Christian anarchist, vegetarian, moral thinker and an influential member of...