토스토이가 다섯 살이었을 때, 그의 형 니콜라이가 그에게 근본적인 행복의 비밀을 러시아에 있는 가족 소유의 한 계곡에 숨겨놓은 작은 녹색 막대에 새겨 놓았다고 말해주었지요.
When Leo Tolstoy was five years old, his brother Nikolay came to him and said he had engraved the secret to universal happiness on a little green stick, which he had hidden in a ravine on the family's estate in Russia.