There is no such thing as history, you see. It\"s a dream, perhaps even a dream of a dream… Walter Benjamin is dead. One of the most radiant minds of the twentieth century has been snatched away by death in a small town on the border between Spain and France....

By 1910, Leo Tolstoy, the world\"s most famous author, had become an almost religious figure, surrounded on his lavish estate by family and followers alike. Set in the tumultuous last year of the count\"s life, The Last Station centres on the......