Lev Nyikolajevics Tolsztoj

Family Happiness is an 1859 novella written by Leo Tolstoy, first published in The Russian Messenger.

Serving on a jury at the trial of a prostitute arrested for murder, Prince Nekhlyudov is horrified to discover that the accused is a woman he had once loved, seduced and then abandoned when she was a young servant girl. Racked with guilt at realizing he was the cause of her ruin, he determines to appeal for her …