A Tolstoy question

[Daniel Rancour-Laferriere]

Dear colleagues,

Somewhere Lev Tolstoy said that one should not try to write history / 
historical fiction until about fifty years after the fact.  Does anyone 
recall when and where Tolstoy made such an assertion (or something 
resembling it)?

Many thanks, and

Regards to the list,

Daniel Rancour-Laferriere

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