 The novel was an international best-seller, translated into more than thirty languages, and adapted into an Academy Award-nominated film of the same name ("The Last Station").Set in 1910, the novel tells the true story of Tolstoy's life in his last days, before he ran away from his wife and his family home, taking to the road, where he died in a small railway station called Astapovo, with only his doctor and his favourite daughter, Sasha, in attendance (the film of this novel add Valentin Bulgakov and others to the deathbed scene who were not, in fact, present).The various narrators, and others in the Tolstoy household and outside of it, were pulling at him, trying to get his attention.