@natecull According to that page, it's a prose retelling of the poem "Les pauvres gens" by Hugo.

@natecull That's probably why it's hard to find. Perhaps it's not treated in the english-speaking world as a Tolstoy original, but treated as "Tolstoy's translation of a Hugo poem" (and Hugo's original seems to be well described and translated in English, it's part of a decently famous collection: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_L%C3% )

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